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Title: An illustrated history of the state of Indiana : being a full and authentic civil and political history of the state from its first exploration down to 1875 ; including an account of the commercial, agricultural, and educational growth of Indiana ; with historical and descriptive sketches of the cities, towns and villages ... together with biographical sketches and portraits of the prominent men of the past and present, and a history of each county separately
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Goodrich, De Witt C Tuttle, Charles R. (Charles Richard), b. 1848
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Publisher: Indianapolis : Richard S. Peale & Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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gnizing men of every na-tion, race and color as brethren. DANIEL KIRKWOOD, IX. D. He was the son of John and Ag-nes (Hope) Kirkwood, and was born.in Harford county, Maryland, Sep-tember twenty-seventh, 1814. Hisyouth was spent in the ordinaryroutine of farm labor, with verylimited opportunities for acquiringeven an English education. In1834 he entered the York CountyAcademy, at York, Pennsylvania,where, first as a student, and after-ward as teacher of mathematics, hecontinued till 1843, when he waselected principal of the Lancaster (Pa.) High School. Col. John W.Forney and Hon. Thaddeus Stevenswere then directors of the Lancas-ter city schools, and Dr. Kirkwoodstill speaks with evident satisfactionof his early official relations withthe subsequently distinguished jour-nalist and statesman. In 18411, while residing in Potts-ville, Pa., Dr. Kirkwood publishedhis Analogy between the Periods ofRotation of the Primary Planets,which was favorably received bythe scientific public. In 1851 he
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632 HISTORY OF INDTANA. was elected a member of the Amer-ican Philosophical Society, at Phil-adelphia, and in the same year tothe chair of mathematics in Dela-ware college. From 1856 to the pres-ent time — with the exception of abrief absence in Canonsburg, Pa.—he has occupied the position whichhe now holds in the University ofIndiana. Dr. Kirkwood has been a frequentcontributor to our scientific jour-nals, and some of his memoirs have attracted much attention, both inEurope and America. His paperpublished in the Proceedings of theRoyal Astronomical Society of Lon-don, Vol. XXIX., was the first to in-dicate the physical cause of the japin Saturns ring, and of similarchasms in the zone of asteroids. The degree of A. M. was conferredon Dr. Kirkwood, in 1849, by Wash-ington college, and that of LL. D. in1852, by the University of Pennsyl- JOHN P. C. SHANKS. He was born in Martinsburg, Vir-ginia, June seventeenth, 1826. Hispaternal ancestors came from Ire-land. His grandfather, Joseph

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