Indiana and Indianans - a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood (1919) (14802305293)

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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Hack isthe mother of three children. She is do-mestic in tastes, lives simply, and has noneof the traditional marks of the feminineblue stocking. She has been a devotedmother and outside of her books her fa-vorite pastime is the cultivation of flowers.Her home is at 2239 Broadway, but shespends her summers in her typical Hoosierfarmhouse on her husbands farm of sev-eral hundred acres in Shelby County. In 1915 )\Irs. Hack brought out anothernovel Daybreak, issued from the houseof Scribner. This is a story of the age ofdiscovery, dealing with the voyage of Co-lumbus. It, has found especially high fa-vor among educational circles, and Da.y-break has already been incoiporated inschool supplementary reading in manyparts of the United States. Mrs. Hack is a member of the Contem-porary Club, the Womans Press Club ofIndiana, Inter Nos, of which she is presi-dent : and the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.She is a member of the First Pi-esbyterianChurch of Indianapolis and in polities, arepublican.
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INDIANA AND INDIAXAXS 1421 Ojier ilADisoN Kem, Congressman fromNebraska, was born in Wayne County, In-diana. November 13, 1855, and received hiseducation in the common schools. In 1882lie removed to Custer County, Nebraska,where he engaj;ced in farming. He joinedthe Independent Republican movement ofthat state in support of the free coinage ofsilver, and entered politics in 1890 as dep-uty treasurer of Custer County. In thesame year he was elected to Congress, asa colleague of William Jennings Bryan,and was re-elected in 1892 and 189-1:. Hewas a forcible speaker, and frequentlyspoke in Congress on economic topics.After the free coinage defeat of 1896. heremoved to a farm near Montrose, Colo-rado, and engaged in fruit-growing. Edward Alvador DeMent has beenthrough all the branches and grades ofresponsibility in the clothing business, hasheld some important offices, and is nowgeneral manager of the Anderson branchof the Greenwald corporation, one of thelargest houses specializing in men