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99 unusual facts about Indiana


Adam Benjamin, Jr.

As a state legislator, Mr. Benjamin developed a new code of ethics for legislators, worked on a new state medical malpractice act, and facilitated court reform for the Lake County Superior Court system.

Adler Seeds

After a fire at its seed facility, Adler Seeds sold its facility and farm ground to Beck's Hybrids, based in Atlanta, Indiana, in 2009.

Albert Henry Vestal

Born on a farm near Frankton, in Madison County, Indiana, on January 18, 1875, he attended common schools, worked in steel mills and factories and attended the Indiana State Normal School, now Indiana State University, at Terre Haute.

Bertrand Township, Michigan

St. Joseph County, Indiana, lies to the south, with Olive Township to the southwest, Warren Township due south, and German Township with the city of South Bend to the south on the east side of the township.

Brian Flanagan

Richard Hinchion, 43, an insulating contractor from Munster, Indiana was another eyewitness supporting that version.

Cal Collins

Cal Collins (May 5, 1933-August 27, 2001) was an American jazz guitarist born in Medora, Indiana.

Carlos Almaraz

Almaraz was born in Mexico City, but his family moved when he was a young child, settling in Chicago, Illinois, where his father owned a restaurant for five years and worked in Gary steel mills for another four.

Cassie Hack

Some time later, the pair investigate a series of murders around a veterinary clinic in Eminence, Indiana.

Charlie Glotzbach

Charles "Charlie" Glotzbach (born June 19, 1938 in Edwardsville, Indiana) is a former ARCA and was a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver.

Chris Rice

But frequent invitations to speak and lead music at his church's youth group events led to more such invitations throughout his college years at the University of Maryland, Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana, and Union University in Jackson, Tennessee.

Chuck Bodak

Bodak was born June 3, 1916 in Gary, Indiana where his involvement in boxing began circa 1929 at Schonfield’s Athletic Club.

Cincinnati Celts

Probably the greatest moment in the team's early existence came against a team from Pine Village, Indiana, in 1916.

College Township

The village of College Corner takes its name from its position in the northwest corner of this section and the Indiana town of College Corner took its name from its Ohio counterpart.

Crash Craddock Live!

The album was recorded at the Little Nashville Opry in Nashville, Indiana.

Darrough

Darrough Chapel, Indiana, an unincorporated town in Center Township, Howard County

Dave Crooks

In May 2011 Dave Crooks announced his candidacy to represent Indiana's 8th Congressional District in the United States Congress.

Dona Massin

In Dona's later years, she and daughter Jodie would visit the Wizard of Oz Festivals in Chesterton, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Chicago.

Duane Richards

Duane Lee Richards (born December 16, 1936 in Spartanburg, Indiana) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.

Duke Tumatoe

When not on the road he teaches guitar lessons at The Music Station music store in Avon, Indiana.

Edgar Whitcomb

Whitcomb was born on November 6, 1917 in Hayden, Indiana, the second child and first son of John Whitcomb and Louise Doud Whitcomb.

Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin

She taught in anthropology, history, and folklore at Indiana University, Bloomington, beginning in the fall of 1943.

Eunice White Beecher

When Henry Ward Beecher, a clergyman, settled in his pastorate in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, in 1837, he returned east to claim her as his bride, having been engaged to her over seven years.

Ezra P. Savage

Savage was born in Connersville, Indiana, but his parents moved to Iowa shortly after his birth.

Federal Contested Elections Act

Prior to the Dornan v. Sanchez contest, the House last considered a contested election in 1985: McIntyre v. McCloskey in the Indiana's 8th congressional district.

Fintan Mundwiler

When St. Meinrad's Abbey was destroyed by fire on 2 September 1887, he rebuilt the monastery on an even greater scale, founded a commercial college at Jasper, Indiana, and assisted in the foundation of the Priory of St. Gall in North Dakota.

Frances Tilton Weaver

She was reported to be the youngest woman attorney to have licenses to practice law in the state supreme courts, and she was the first woman ever to practice law in Porter County, Indiana.

Frank K. Edmondson

He also negotiated the donation of the privately owned Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana to Indiana University.

G-W Invader

Roger Harmon later started Harmon Boats Fiberglas Specialists LLC in Sharpsville and Cicero, Indiana.

G-W Invader is a line of small recreational power boats that were manufactured by Arne Gray and George Wooldridge of Sharpsville, Indiana, United States.

Gerald Miller

Miller also spearheaded the creation of the EMS in Wells County, Indiana that continues to serve the citizens of Wells County.

Gregory Alan Thornbury

Thornbury was ordained in 1996 at the First Baptist Church (Southern Baptist) of Clarksville, Indiana.

Herr

Herr, Indiana, an unincorporated town in Perry Township, Boone County, Indiana, USA

Illinois Route 32

Illinois 32 overlaps Illinois 33 from Shumway to Effingham, where Illinois 32 terminates and Illinois 33 continues east through Effingham to the Vincennes, Indiana area.

Indiana, Pennsylvania

Arguably the most celebrated and notorious environmentalist author of the twentieth century, Edward Abbey (1927–1989), was born at the Indiana hospital and raised in Indiana and near the Indiana County towns and villages of Saltsburg, Pennsylvania, Tanoma, and Home, Pennsylvania.

International Disaster Emergency Service

International Disaster Emergency Service (IDES) is a non-profit organization based in Kempton, Indiana, United States that seeks to meet the physical and spiritual needs of people in times of emergency.

James Johnston Thornton

Thornton excelled in his studies and was named justice of the peace for Warrick County, Indiana (1842).

James M. Hamilton

Hamilton enrolled at Union Christian College in Merom, Indiana.

Jefferson Township, Cass County, Indiana

Davis Cemetery is located a mile east of Burnettsville and a half mile east of the White County-Cass county line, and is commonly referred to as the Davis Cemetery Burnettsville in obituaries.

Jill Long Thompson

She lives with her husband Don Thompson, a commercial airline pilot, in Marshall County on a farm near Argos, Indiana, where they planted 2,000 trees in two days as a symbol of their love.

John A. Hiigli

On June 1, 1943, John A. Hiigli was born into a small farming community in Union Mills, Indiana.

Johnnie Davis

Born John Gustave Davis in Brazil, Indiana, into a family of musicians, Davis developed an interest in music during his childhood.

Jordan Township, Warren County, Indiana

The grain grown was either fed to livestock or hauled by wagon to elevators at Ambia, West Lebanon, or Rossville, Illinois.

Kevin Dudley

Dudley attended Franklin County High School in Brookville, Indiana, and played running back as well as linebacker.

Lake Holiday

Lake Holiday, IN, a large, private, unincorporated community (including several subdivisions) near Crawfordsville, Indiana.

Lake Holiday, Indiana

Lake Holiday can be found five miles (8 km) southwest of Crawfordsville, off Indiana State Road 47, between County Roads 400 W & 550 S., near New Market.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Laurell Kaye Hamilton was born Laurell Kaye Klein in Heber Springs, Arkansas but grew up in Sims, Indiana with her grandmother Laura Gentry.

Lena Pierpont

In the 1900 census, Lena L. Pierpont was enumerated in Center Township, Delaware County, Indiana, married within the year.

Liberty Hills, Fort Wayne

Originally a suburban rural development in unincorporated Allen County, the area was incorporated inside the Fort Wayne city limts as part of Fort Wayne's Southwest Extended Annexation of parts of Wayne and Aboite townships.

Lonely Ol' Night

The song was recorded at Belmont Mall in Belmont, Indiana, was produced by Mellencamp (under the alias "Little Bastard") and Don Gehman, engineered by Gehman and Greg Edward.

Mabel Leigh Hunt

She was raised in Greencastle and, from age ten until her physician father died, in Plainfield (a center of Indiana Quaker activity).

Maclyn McCarty

McCarty was born in 1911 in South Bend, Indiana, the second of four sons of a branch manager for the Studebaker Corporation while it was still a firm for horse-drawn carriages.

MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors

Captain Frank Burns – from Fort Wayne, Indiana, born to affluence, accustomed to authority, adept at cardiac massage, but inept at everything else

Mike Lockwood Memorial Tournament

The Mike Lockwood Memorial Tournament was a professional wrestling memorial event produced by the New Breed Wrestling Association (NBWA) promotion, which took place on March 18, 2005 at ZB Falcons in South Bend, Indiana.

Mitch Harper

The Fourth District is on the west side of the City of Fort Wayne and comprises Waynedale, Time Corners and much of Aboite Township.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Marion County, Indiana

Center Township is the location of 165 of these properties and districts, including 5 of the National Historic Landmarks; these properties and districts are listed separately.

National Road Yard Sale

Started in 2003 by Patricia McDaniel, the owner of The Old Storefront Antiques on Route 40 in Dublin, Indiana, the National Road Yard Sale offers a unique opportunity to not only travel down a road that is over 200 years old, but also to get a taste of the unique communities along the way.

NEXRAD

The last system of this installation campaign was installed in North Webster, Indiana on August 30, 1997.

Nine Mile, Fort Wayne

Nine Mile is an unincorporated town southwest of Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States near the Fort Wayne International Airport.

Ohio State Route 122

The route also used to continue west of the Indiana state line as Indiana State Road 122 west to its terminus at US 27 east of Abington, Indiana.

Oscar Raymond Luhring

Born in Haubstadt, Indiana, Luhring attended the public schools and received a B.L. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1900.

Otis R. Bowen

Vernie also owned a hardware store in Leiters Ford, was a trustee for Aubbeenaubbee Township, President of the Woodlawn Hospital Board of Trustees, and President of the Leiters Ford Merchants Association.

Pailton Engineering Ltd

As Pailton were growing their product range so was the market reach, due to the opening in 1999 of Pailton Inc. in Valparaiso, Indiana, USA.

Perry Meridian High School

It is one of two public high schools serving grades nine through twelve in the Perry Township, along with Southport High School.

Phillip Hinkle

In 1978, he was elected Wayne Township, Indiana Assessor, a position to which he was re-elected three times.

Point Isabel

Point Isabel, Indiana, an unincorporated community in Grant County, Indiana

Popcorn

At least six localities (all in the Midwestern United States) claim to be the "Popcorn Capital of the World": Ridgway, Illinois; Valparaiso, Indiana; Van Buren, Indiana; Schaller, Iowa; Marion, Ohio; and North Loup, Nebraska.

Preble County, Ohio

After finishing fifth grade, Preble County students attend Union County Middle School and Union County High School, both located across the state line in Liberty, Indiana.

Renner, Indiana

The northern half of Indiana, including what became Licking Township and Renner, was flattened by two glaciers millions of years ago.

Robert d'Escourt Atkinson

Robert d'Escourt Atkinson (born April 11, 1898, Rhayader, Wales – died October 28, 1982, Bloomington, Indiana) was a British astronomer, physicist and inventor.

Robert O. Fink

Robert Orwill Fink (4 November 1905, Geneva, Indiana – 17 December 1988, Mount Vernon, Ohio) was a papyrologist with a special interest in Roman military papyri.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana

WLYV "Reedemmer Radio" 1450 AM in Fort Wayne,plus audiostream.

While driving to a conference on Canon Law in January 1984, Bishop Fulcher died when his car crashed off US-41 at Gobbler's Knob north of Rockville.

Ron Ellett

Willis was the son of David Ellett whose father was Edward Ellett, Sr. the founder of Ellettsville, Indiana.

Royal Oaks, Fort Wayne

Originally a suburban rural development in unincorporated Allen County, the area was incorporated inside the Fort Wayne city limits on September 21, 1991 as part of Fort Wayne's Northeast Phase I Annexation.

Royville, Fort Wayne

Originally a suburban rural development in unincorporated Allen County, the area was incorporated inside the Fort Wayne city limts on March 16, 1963 as part of Fort Wayne's Springwood Addition Annexation.

Scecina Memorial High School

The namesake of the first diocesan Roman Catholic high school in Indianapolis was born in Vicksburg, Indiana, on September 16, 1910.

Squire Boone

The settlement is in what is now called Boone Township, and it began to flourish early on.

St. Vincent Williamsport Hospital

St. Vincent Williamsport Hospital primarily serves residents in Warren and Benton counties, and maintains a 24-hour emergency service as well as surgical facilities, diagnostic services and clinics.

Stan Coveleski

In 1929, after leaving major league baseball, Coveleski relocated to South Bend, Indiana.

Stanley Armour Dunham

The most recent native European ancestor was Falmouth Kearney, a farmer who emigrated from Moneygall, County Offaly, Ireland, during the Great Irish Famine and settled in Jefferson Township, Tipton County, Indiana, United States.

Stephen S. Harding

He then opened a law office in Richmond, Indiana which remained open for six months when he opened one in Versailles, Indiana.

Suedehead

The video clip for this Morrissey single features the singer walking in the streets of Fairmount, Indiana, the boyhood city of James Dean.

Supreme Court of Indiana

Initially the Court shared space on the second floor of the Marion County Courthouse, before moving to the third Indiana Statehouse.

The Dixie Bee-Liners

The band has toured extensively throughout the United States and Canada, playing such prestigious festivals as Merlefest, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Palisade Bluegrass & Roots Festival, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, FloydFest and Bean Blossom.

Thomas F. Ricks House

Thomas F. Ricks (1855–1908) was born in Eureka, California, the son of 49-er Caspar S. Ricks (November 10, 1821 Rome, Indiana - June 21, 1888 San Francisco) who built many business and residential blocks in Eureka and Adaline A. Fouts of Clark County, Indiana who also owned Eureka property independent from that of her husband.

Thomas J. Cason

Born near Brownsville, Indiana, Cason moved to Boone County with his parents, who settled on a farm near Thorntown in 1832.

Thomas McMurtry

Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, on 4 June 1935, McMurtry attended elementary school in Rockville, Indiana, and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in June 1957.

Tommy Thevenow

Thomas Joseph Thevenow (September 6, 1903 in Madison, Indiana – July 29, 1957 in Madison, Indiana) was a professional baseball player who played shortstop in the Major Leagues from 1924 to 1938.

He had operated a grocery store in his hometown of Madison, Indiana following his retirement from baseball.

Tony Kanal

While most of his early years were spent in London, Kanal and his family also spent brief periods living in Toronto, Canada, and Munster, Indiana, before eventually returning to London.

Tracy L. Gorman

Rev. Gorman has worked at the following churches: First Church of the Nazarene, Decatur, Illinois; Real Life Community Church, Portage, Indiana; Southside Church of the Nazarene, Richmond, Virginia; First Church of the Nazarene, Washington, Pennsylvania; New Life Church, Newburgh, Indiana; and Southside Church of the Nazarene, Muncie, Indiana.

Triton Junior–Senior High School

The Triton School Corporation, formed in 1963 to consolidate the schools of Bourbon, Etna Green, and Tippecanoe, Indiana, is located in east central Marshall County, Indiana.

Vevay Park, Illinois

Grant Pickett, who operated a pumping station for the railroad, renamed the town after his former home of Vevay, Indiana.

Waynedale, Fort Wayne

Waynedale is a neighborhood area in the southwest quadrant of Fort Wayne, Indiana in Allen County.

WFGA

Although its city of license is in Ohio, WFGA now primarily concentrates on serving the Auburn and Garrett area in northeastern Indiana, where its signal is much stronger than in Fort Wayne.

Whitall Perry

In 1980, he moved to Bloomington, Indiana where he resided for the last 25 years of his life.

Whitewater Memorial State Park

Four counties gave up part of their land so that the state of Indiana could create the memorial park: Fayette, Franklin, Union and Wayne.

William Hayden English

William Hayden English was born August 27, 1822, in Lexington, Indiana, the only son of Elisha Gale English and his wife, Mahala (Eastin) English.

William J. Schroeder

William J. Schroeder (1932, Jasper, Indiana – August 7, 1986), was one of the first recipients of an artificial heart at the age of 52.


1998–99 New York Knicks season

Game 5 @ Market Square Arena, Indianapolis (June 9): New York 101, Indiana 94

Albert Berg

After leaving the Indiana Institution for the Deaf, Berg enrolled at the "Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb" (later renamed Gallaudet University), run by Edward Miner Gallaudet in Washington, D.C. He was a halfback and captain of the football team at Gallaudet.

Charles Cathcart

Charles W. Cathcart (1809 – 1888), United States Representative and Senator from Indiana

Council of Conservative Citizens

The CofCC continues protesting speaking engagements by Morris Dees in Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Indiana, and South Carolina, declaring him to be a threat to free speech and a fraud.

Francisville, Kentucky

Interstate 275, the beltway around Cincinnati, forms the southern edge of the CDP, with the community of Hebron to the south of I-275.

Frank Cignetti

Frank Cignetti, Sr. (born 1937), American football player and coach, head coach at West Virginia University (1976–1979) and Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1986–2005)

Galien Township, Michigan

Indiana is to the south, with Olive Township in St. Joseph County to the southeast and Hudson Township in LaPorte County to the southwest.

George VIII of Georgia

Ronald Grigor Suny, The Making of the Georgian Nation: 2nd edition (December 1994), Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-20915-3, page 45-46

Harvey N. Middleton

Middleton was a member of several national, state, and local medical associations: the American Medical Association, the National Medical Association, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American College of Physians, the American Thoracic Society, the Indiana State Medical Association, the Aesculapian Society, the Indiana Thoracic Society, and the Marion County Medical Society.

Henry Elliott Hudson

In 1901 the various volumes of his manuscript collection were privately sold, though it is now publicly available at the National Library of Ireland, the Boston Public Library, and the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. Henry's brother William Elliot Hudson (1796-1853) was a barrister noted for his philanthropy and his support of the Irish language.

Indiana Democratic Party

In 1913, Thomas Marshall, Governor of Indiana, became yet another Democratic Hoosier to be a Vice President (under Woodrow Wilson).

Indiana Northeastern Railroad

In northeastern Indiana, the INR operates a line that runs along the southern edge of Steuben County from South Milford east through Ashley, Steubenville and Hamilton to the Ohio state line.

Indiana Pacers

It is owned and operated by the Capital Improvement Board, City of Indianapolis, Indiana and its groundbreaking was on July 22, 1997 by Ellerbe Becket Architects & Engineers.

Indiana State Road 13

This was part of the route that Eastern settlers, having crossed the lakes to Detroit, used after they disembarked to travel south into Indiana.

Jackson Bailey

Bailey was also honored with Honorary doctorate degrees from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Wabash College in Indiana, the College of Wooster in Ohio, and Waseda University in Japan.

James Banks

Jim Banks (born 1979), American politician in the Indiana Senate

James Baskett

After abandoning his studies of pharmacology for financial reasons, James Baskett supported himself as an actor, moving from his home town of Indianapolis, Indiana to New York City, New York and joining the company of Bill Robinson, better known as Mr. Bojangles.

John Boehne

John W. Boehne (1856–1946), U.S. Representative from Indiana from 1909 to 1913

John Mutz

Mutz has had a long business career including the management of a large group of Burger Chef restaurants and serving as president of PSI Energy, Indiana's largest utility.

Joyful Noise

Joyful Noise Recordings, an independent record label founded in Indiana in 2003

KCAC

Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex, a convention and athletic center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Ken Williams

Kenneth P. Williams (1887–?), professor of mathematics at Indiana University

KLAF

Purdue University Airport, a public-use airport in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States

Leavenworth, Indiana

His son Zebulon, named after the boy's uncle in Indiana, became a famous riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River and was a friend of Mark Twain before Twain became a writer.

Lubin Manufacturing Company

Aided by French-born writer and poet Hugh Antoine d'Arcy, who served as the studio's publicity manager, in 1910 Siegmund Lubin built a state of the art studio on the corner of Indiana avenue and Twentieth Street in Philadelphia that became known as "Lubinville."

Margaret Hillis

Margaret Hillis was an older sister to Elwood "Bud" Hillis, who served as Representative to the United States Congress from Kokomo, Indiana for eight terms (1971–1987).

McNicholas Quadruplets

Lindsay McNicholas is the wife of Adam Krug, Assistant Coach of the Indiana Ice, and her brother in law is Torey Krug who plays for the Boston Bruins.

Metabolife

Metabolife took an active role in lobbying against regulation of ephedra, forming an advocacy group called the Dietary Supplement Safety and Science Coalition and contributing heavily to Congressmen Brian Bilbray (R-Calif.) and Dan Burton (R-Ind.), among other politicians.

Mike Bonifer

Born on December 31, 1953, in Jasper, Indiana, Bonifer grew up on a farm near Ireland, Indiana, the oldest of six children of Bob and Fern (Henke) Bonifer.

Mike Rosenthal

He was tabbed as Indiana's Gatorade Circle of Champions Player of the Year as a senior.

Montgomery Township, Gibson County, Indiana

Something delayed his return with family to claim that land, so he ended up settling on the west bank of Black River near the present site of Owensville.

Mount Albion Cemetery

Gilbert De La Matyr, (1825–1892), Methodist Episcopal Church elder who served a single term as U.S. Representative from Indiana after the Civil War.

Paddy Baumann

Baumann died in Indianapolis, Indiana at age 83 and is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery.

Parke County, Indiana

The architects for this building were Thomas J. Tolan and his son Brentwood of Fort Wayne; they designed seven Indiana courthouses, as well as several in Ohio, Iowa, Illinois and Tennessee.

Paul F. Bradshaw

He is also a priest-vicar of Westminster Abbey, an honorary canon of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana, a member of the Church of England Liturgical Commission.

PrimeCo

The Illinois-Indiana PrimeCo territories were purchased by Clarity Partners, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm in 2001, who successfully improved the company's operations and later sold it to U.S. Cellular.

Ratzinger Foundation

Reverend Professor Brian E. Daley, S.J., an American Jesuit who is Catherine F. Huisking Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana.

Ruffin Pleasant

Pleasant was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention of 1916, which renominated Woodrow Wilson for president and Thomas Marshall of Indiana for vice president.

Scott M. Sipprelle

Sipprelle was criticized later in January for his contribution to the congressional campaigns of Blue Dog Democrats Allen Boyd of Florida, Charlie Melancon of Louisiana, Heath Shuler of North Carolina, Baron Hill of Indiana, and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin of South Dakota.

Shelli Yoder

She was the Democratic Party nominee for the United States House of Representatives in Indiana's 9th congressional district in the 2012 race and is currently a member of the County Council for Monroe County, Indiana.

Songs for Older Women

Songs for Older Women is the first live album by progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee, recorded over a two-night stand in Indiana in November 1998 and released in 1999.

Southern Wesleyan University

Ken Schenck, Dean of Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University

Steve Alford

In his senior year, the Alford-led 1986-87 Hoosiers won Indiana's fifth national championship against Syracuse in the 1987 NCAA tournament.

Supreme Court of Indiana

In December 1816 Jonathan Jennings, Indiana's first governor, nominated John Johnson of Vincennes Knox County; James Scott of Charlestown Clark County; and Jesse Holman of Aurora Dearborn County, to serve as the first panel of judges on the Indiana Supreme Court.

WIFF

WGBJ, a radio station (102.3 FM ) licensed to serve Auburn, Indiana, United States, which held the call sign WIFF-FM from 1967 to 1995

William A. Koch

With so many projects going - seemingly all at once - Bill Koch discovered in the late 1950s that Indiana's segment of Interstate 64 was going to run from Vincennes to New Albany.

WQKC

WAYI, a radio station (93.9 FM) licensed to serve Sellersburg, Indiana, which held the call sign WQKC from 1991 to 2008

WVHF

WWJS-CD channel 15, in Jeffersonville, Indiana, formerly used the call sign WVHF