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During the Civil War, Indiana Republicans continually worried that many Hoosier Democrats were conspiring with the South to overthrow the state government.
A series of sketches in the Owen Family Papers bearing the pseudonym “Clorion” have lately been attributed to Richard Owen's wife Martha.
Indiana Territorial Governor Thomas Posey never claimed to be the son of George Washington. It was only after Posey’s death that such claims first surfaced.
Voters opposed outright electioneering, so when Jennings dropped in at a militia muster or log rolling, he was always ‘on his way’ to some other place.
During the 1940s, women made up fewer than 10% of American medical school graduates. "The class was addressed as ‘You men’," one female student remembered.
Although his Indiana years were darkened by financial woes and family tragedy, Beecher later recalled his Hoosier period as the foundation of his career.