Dout inUana U university i( ", ' "ndiana, )ur Iiuanla t As Seen by WM. HENRY TECUMSEH MICHAELMAS #aRl 8.kvA i n.Y UT TRUSTEES: Although Mary Farmer Stempel formation of Indiana University but it is his name was heard to opine that this column reached a new that is memorialized in the title of Butler University. low several months ago when its entire content was devoted to a remarkable analysis of the various ar- GEORGE >EDFORD DUNN: As a member of rangements .under which American colleges and the General Assembly he was instrumental in ob- universities are governed, we venture to remark that, taining a charter for the first railroad to be built in some unusual individuals have served on the Board Indiana and, when the first mile was built, near of Trustees of old I. U. This is brought to mind by Shelbyville, he was the hero of the throng who the distribution of the compilation by the late Bur- gathered to see the .event. He was treasurer of the ton Dorr Myers of the biographies of the officers of state and a circuit judge. Indiana University from 1820 through 1950. Dr. Myers labored long in his work; he searched old WIILIA ISON DUNN: Not only a trustee of records, he wrote surviving families and friends; he Indiana, Mr. Dunn became the first trustee of Wa- tramped through the high grass of secluded ceme- bash college and, later resigned so that he could teries seeking dates of birth and death. When he devote full time to the affairs of Hanover College. was through and after Miss Ivy Chamness, as editor, He gave fifty acres of land for a site of Hanover and had read and reread his work there were 537 pages the fifteen acres that became the site of Wabash. in type and pictures. He, too, was an Indian fighter - in fact his genera- The volume will not place high on the list of tion was known as the "fighting Dunns." national best sellers but it will grace many a refer- was a ence shelf in Indiana and in other states. WILLIAM HENDRICKS: Mr. Hendricks member of the Teridtorial legislature, secretary of A dig into its pages may not be amiss here. the Constitutional Convention, member of Congress, First trustee to be mentioned is David Hervey Governor of Indiana, United States Senator and, for Maxwell, Bloomington physician of another day, long thirteen years, a trustee of Indiana University. termed the "father of Indiana University." Born in he went to school in Danville where "he Kentucky WILLIAM B. LAUGHLIN: Known as the "father became well versed in mathematics and was an ex- of Rushville" Mr. Laughlin studied medicine under cellent, well-read English, though not a classical, Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of He was a trustee for nearly thirty-two scholar." Independence. He taught school in Brookville and years. A son, James D.-Maxwell, also a Blooming- had as pupils three boys who were to become gov- top physician, served thirty-one years as trustee and ernors of Indiana: James B. lAay, Noah Noble and another son, Allison D. Maxwell, was once dean of David Wallace. He had thirteen children and, in a the Indiana University School of Medicine. A son- manner of self defense, opened the school. in-law, Tilghman A. Howard, was a trustee for three family representation. years. Pretty good DAVID WALLACE: Not only was Mr. Wallace David Hervey Maxwell "read" his medicine in the the sixth governor of Indiana but he served a three office of Dr. Ephraig McDowell, who is honored in year term as a trustee of I. U. He issued the first the name of one of Kentucky's parks and was the Thanksgiving Proclamation by a governor of Indi- first man in history to perform a laparotomy. Dr. ana. In Congress his vote was the deciding one that Maxwell was not content to be just a trustee; he permitted Samuel F. B. Morse to test out his in- fought the infant school's battles on the floor of the vention of the telegraph. But the people back home General Assembly where he served three terms in the thought any man that believed in such a silly notion House and one in the Senate. as the transmission of messages by wire did not de- serve public office and defeated him. LOWE: One trustee of I. U. was WILLIAM PARIS CHIPMAN DUNNING: Bloomington boy born two hundred and fifteen years ago, in 1736 - to become governor served as a member and as pres- years before the Declaration of Independence forty ident of the board of trustees. He had studied law William Lowe, the patriarch, died in was signed. in the office of James Whitcomb. He is the only 104. His bocy Ies I Rose Hill 1840'At the age of person in the Indiana records who has been governor, his late seventies he had left in Bloomington. In lieutenant-governor, president of the Senate, United of established settlements in North the comforts States Senator and Congressman. Carolina and moved into the relative wilderness of he did not sit huddled over Monroe county. There THOMAS M. ADAMS: Adams of Brown - lived He became a member of the con- an open fireplace. County Blues" were made up of stalwarts from the vention at Corydon which drafted the first constitu- hills. They served at Buena Bista under Captain tion of Indiana. He helped create a state. He be- Adams. As a veteran he wore a plug hat and his clerk. He designed the first courthouse. came county photograph reproduced in Dr. Myer's book shows For THAT he received $4. ' both him and the hat. He feuded with Maxwell over the religion of the instructors at Indiana. He was for Andy Jackson OTHERS: There is not space to list the scores for president and headed the ticket of electors. and scores of other men and women who served in Jacksonburg which was the early name for Nash- WILLIAM MARSHALL: Col. Marshall repre- ville. When the Mexican War broke out the "Brown sented Jackson county for seven sessions in the their state and its young people faithfully. The ones General Assembly. He signed treaties with the Ind- mentioned are enough to indicate the calibre of the ians; he was a partner of the Conners; he understood board - Dr. Myers found drama in their lives and and spoke several Indian dialects; he was a United his biographical sketches and interesting reading. States marshal, census agent, Indian agent and a He never saw the finished book; the proofs and the treaty commissioner. Quite a man! smudged trial sheets of the engravings were a satis- faction to him but the first copies of the bound OVD BUTLER: Lawyer in Indianapolis, Mr. volume arrived in Bloomington ten days after his Butler was not only one of those who aided in the death..