THE HOOSIERS
National Studies in American Letters.
GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY, Editor.
OLD CAMBRIDGE.
By Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
BROOK FARM.
By Lindsay Swift.
THE HOOSIERS.
By Meredith Nicholson.
IN PREPARATION.
THE CLERGY IN AMERICAN LIFE AND LETTERS.
By The Rev. Daniel Dulany Addison.
THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL NOVEL.
By Paul Leicester Ford.
THE KNICKERBOCKERS.
By The Rev. Henry van Dyke, D.D.
SOUTHERN HUMORISTS.
By John Kendrick Bangs.
FLOWER OF ESSEX.
By The Editor.
Others to be announced.
THE HOOSIERS
BY
MEREDITH NICHOLSON
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
1900
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1900,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.
To the Memory of
CALEB MILLS
SOMETIME PROFESSOR IN WABASH COLLEGE
THE FRUITS OF WHOSE ENLIGHTENMENT, FORESIGHT
AND COURAGE
ARE AN ENDURING HERITAGE
TO THE PEOPLE OF INDIANA
PREFACE
These pages represent an effort to give somehint of the forces that have made for cultivationin Indiana. While the immediate purposehas been an examination of the State’s performancein literature, it has seemed properto approach the subject with a slight reviewof Indiana’s political and social history. Owingto limitations of space, much is suggested merelywhich it would be profitable to discuss at length.It is hoped that such matters as racial influences,folk-speech, etc., which are but lightlytouched here, may appeal to others who willmake them the subject of more searching inquiry.Only names that have seemed most significantare included; many creditable writersare necessarily omitted.
I take pleasure in acknowledging my indebtednessto Dr. Edward Eggleston, Miss AnnaNicholas, and Mr. Merrill Moores for their[viii]courteous responses to many requests for information.Miss May Louise Shipp gave meaccess to papers relating to her kinswoman,Mrs. Dumont, which I could not have seenbut for her kindness. Miss Eliza G. Browning,the Public Librarian of Indianapolis, Mr. H. S.Wedding, the Librarian of Wabash College,and Mr. Charles R. Dudley, of the DenverLibrary, were mos