Indiana and Indianans - a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood (1919) (14595741830)

Identifier: indianaindianans03dunn (find matches)
Title: Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924 Kemper, General William Harrison, 1839-
Subjects: Medicine -- Indiana Indiana -- History Indiana -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago and New York : The American historical society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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he result of thisinvestigation was the overthrow of the ad-ministration at the subsequent election.In 1905 Indianas governor appointed^himone of the three members of a commissionto investigate state affairs and particularlythe condition of Indiana insurance com-panies. That was a time when the insur-ance business all over the nation was underfire, and Mr. Noels work in Indiana sup-plemented and followed closely along thelines of the investigation undertaken underthe leadership of Charles E. Hughes inNew York. Mr. Noel gave the greater partof one year to this investigation, as a resultof which the auditor of state, the secretaryof state and the adjutant general were re-moved from office and hundreds of thou-sands of dollars were recovered to the statetreasury. Mv. Noel wrote for the commit-tee a report on insurance conditions inIndiana, which was regarded as one of themost complete and searching in its an-alysis among the many similar reports thatcame out about the same time. Following
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INDIANA AND INDIANANS 1-181 its piiblioatioii IMr. Noel was employed bythe auditor of state to make a public in-vestigation of the State Life InsuranceCompany of Indianapolis. All of this isa matter of public history, but it may berecalled that the president and vice presi-dent of the company resigned, and thegoverning board was completely reorgan-ized. Under the direction of the MerchantsAssociation of Indianapolis Mr. Noel di-rected in 1908 an investigation of theaffairs of )\Iarion County. This was alsofollowed by the indictment and trial ofseveral officials and the recovery of a largesum of public money. An even more im-portant result was effected when at thesuggestion of Mr. Noel the Merchants As-sociation and other commercial bodies inthe state united in a demand for the pas-sage of a law providing for imiform ac-counting and an annual audit of all publicoffices in Indiana. The Legislature passedsuch a bill in 1909, largely as formulatedand revised by Mr. Noel. Work of this kind