Moment of Indiana History
For a young Catholic boy in a small Indiana town in the early 1920s, attending mass felt like "walking through a battlefield”.
On the fair's first day in 1853, 15,000 people went through the fair; on the second day, 25,000; attendees spilled over into attractions beyond the fairgrounds.
Candler was favorably impressed with the “young and vigorous city” of Indianapolis, but soundly disapproved of the legislature's attitude toward slavery.
George McCutcheon's obituary in The New York Times placed him in the “Indiana school of romantic literature,” noting the “innocent happiness” he had imparted.
US Senator and staunch Lincoln supporter Henry S. Lane may be best remembered for his three-day term as Indiana’s thirteenth governor.
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