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Indiana: Isaac Blackford, John T. McKinney and Steven C. Stevens. 

 Rear Admiral Oliver S. Glisson spent his early life in Brookville until 

 he was appointed midshipman in 1826. Captain William H. Herndon, 

 father-in-law of President Chester A. Arthur, lived in Brookville. Gen- 

 eral Pleasant Hackleman born across the river a short distance below 

 Brookville was the only general from Indiana who lost his life in the 

 Civil War. 



The Hermitage at Brookville has been for 25 years the home of 

 John Ottis Adams, one of Indiana's leading artists. Mrs. Adams is also 

 an artist of ability. T. C. Steele made Brookville his home for a time 

 until after the death of his first wife. John Herron, who gave Indian- 

 apolis the John Herron Art Institute, spent most of his life in Frank- 

 lin County where he made brick and tile and did general farming. 



Brookville has furnished a number of prominent educators: Dr. 

 John P. D. John, President of Brookville College, Moores Hill College 

 and DePauw University; Charles N. Sims, Chancellor of Syracuse Uni- 

 versity; William M. Daily, President of Indiana University; Russell 

 B. Abbot, President of Albert Lee College; J. H. Martin, President of 

 Brookville College, and later of Moores Hill College; Charles W. Lewis, 

 President of Moores Hill College and later President of Wyoming State 

 University; L. D. Potter, President of Glendale College; George A. 

 Chase, President of Brookville College; E. H. Barber, Educator in the 

 University of Nebraska; William R. Goodwin, President of Brookville 

 College, also a prominent minister; John W. Locke, President of Brook- 

 ville College and minister. Many other prominent ministers have lived 

 in the county, among them Joseph Tarkington, James Haven, Thomas 

 H. Lynch, Thomas A. Goodwin and John G. Chafee, minister and poet. 



James B. Eads of Mississippi Jetties fame lived in Brookville where 

 his father kept a store. Frank B. Wynn, President of the Indiana 

 Medical Society, of the State Historical Commission and naturalist, was 

 born in Franklin County. 



Of writers Brookville claims a goodly number. General Lew Wallace, 

 who wrote Ben Hur, is the best known; Maurice Thompson wrote Alice 

 of Old Vincennes; Louisa Chitwood, who died before she was twenty- 

 three, left more than a thousand poems; Sarah T. Bolton, Frances Con- 

 well Wilson and her husband Forsythe Wilson, Ida Husted Harper, 

 and there are many others who might be mentioned. 



James Raridan, John Test, R. B. F. Pierce and Isaac Clements were 

 congressmen who have lived in this county. 



I have mentioned some of the prominent people who have lived in 

 Franklin County. Their influence on the intellectual development of 

 the state must be very great. Then there were thousands of hardy 

 pioneers and their children who moved from Franklin County and have 

 permeated almost every part of the state. There is no question of the 

 sturdy manhood and intellectual character of these early pioneers nor 

 that their lives left a strong imprint on the intellectual development 

 of the state. 



The Brookville College from 1853 to 1873 did a great educational 

 work. 



