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Indiana, USA

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Indiana is the 19th U.S. state and is located in the Midwest region of the United States of America.



With over six million residents, it is ranked 15th in population and 17th in population density. It is 38th in land area.



Indiana is a diverse state with a few large urban areas and a number of smaller industrial cities. It is known for the Indianapolis 500 American automobile race, held annually over the Memorial Day weekend, and a strong basketball tradition, often called Hoosier Hysteria. Residents of Indiana are called Hoosiers.



The state's name means "Land of the Indians" and Angel Mounds State Historic Site, one of the best preserved prehistoric Native American sites in the United States, can be found in southern Indiana



Geography



Indiana is bounded on the north by Lake Michigan and the state of Michigan; on the east by Ohio; on the south by Kentucky, with which it shares the Ohio River as a border; and on the west by Illinois. Indiana is one of the Great Lakes states.



The northern boundary of the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois was originally defined to be a latitudinal line drawn through the southernmost tip of Lake Michigan. Since such a line would not provide Indiana with usable frontage on the lake, its northern border was shifted ten miles north. The northern borders of Ohio and Illinois were also shifted from this original plan.



The 475 mile (764 km) long Wabash River bisects the state from northeast to southwest and has given Indiana a few theme songs, On the Banks of the Wabash, The Wabash Cannonball and Back Home Again, In Indiana. The White River (a tributary of the Wabash, which is a tributary of the Ohio) zigzags through central Indiana.



There are 24 Indiana state parks, nine man-made reservoirs, and hundreds of lakes in the state. Areas under the control and protection of the National Park Service include:



* George Rogers Clark National Historical Park in Vincennes



* Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore near Michigan City



* Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in Lincoln City



* Hoosier National Forest in Bedford



History



The area of Indiana has been settled since before the development of the Hopewell culture (ca. 100–400 CE). It was part of the Mississippian culture from roughly the year 1000 up to 1400.). The specific Native American tribes that inhabited this territory at that time were primarily the Miami and the Shawnee. The area was claimed for New France in the 17th century, handed over to the Kingdom of Great Britain as part of the settlement at the end of the French and Indian War, given to the United States after the American Revolution, soon after which it became part of the Northwest Territory, then the Indiana Territory, and joined the Union in 1816 as the 19th state. See Northwest Indian War.



Pioneer Era



On June 29, 1816, Indiana adopted a constitution, and on December 11, 1816, became the 19th State to join the Union.



Indiana filled up from the Ohio River north. Emigration, mostly from Kentucky and Ohio, was so rapid that by 1820 the population was 147,176, and by 1830 the sales of public lands for the previous decade reached 3,588,000 acres (5,600 sq mi; 14,500 km²) and the population was 343,031. It had more than doubled since 1820. The first state capital was in the southern Indiana city of Corydon.



Transportation



Down the Mississippi and its tributaries (the Ohio and Wabash) was to be found the sole outlet for the increasing produce of the Middle West, whose waters drained into the great valley. Districts which were not upon streams navigable by even the lightest draught steamboat were economically handicapped. The small, flat boat was their main reliance. Roads suitable for heavy carriage were few up to the middle of the century. The expense and time attending shipment of merchandise from the east at that time were almost prohibitive. To meet this condition, the building of canals (espoused by the constitution of 1816) was long advocated, in emulation of Ohio which took example after New York State. In 1826, Congress granted a strip two and a half miles wide on each side of the proposed canal. A very extensive and ambitious scale of main and lateral canals and turnpikes was advocated in consequence.



Work began on the Wabash and Erie Canal in 1832, on the Whitewater Canal in 1836, on the Central in 1837. Bad financing and "bad times" nearly wrecked the whole scheme; yet, the Wabash and Erie Canal was completed from Toledo to Evansville. It was a great factor in the development of the state, although it brought heavy loss upon the bondholders with the advent of the railroad. Upon completion, the canal actually increased prices of farm products three or fourfold and reduced prices of household needs 60%, a tremendous stimulus to agricultural development. By 1840, the population of the upper Wabash Valley had increased from 12,000 to 270,000. The canal boat that hauled loads of grain east came back loaded with immigrants. In 1846, it is estimated that over thirty families settled every day in the state.



Manufacturing also developed rapidly. In the ten years between 1840 and 1850, the counties bordering the canal increased in population 397%; those more fertile, but more remote, 190%. The tide of trade, which had been heretofore to New Orleans, was reversed and went east. The canal also facilitated and brought emigration from Ohio, New York, and New England, in the newly established counties in the northern two-thirds of the state. Foreign immigration was mostly from Ireland and Germany. Later, this great canal fell into disuse, and finally was abandoned, as railway mileage increased.



In the next ten years, by 1840, of the public domain 9,122,688 acres (14,250 mi²; 36,918 km²) had been sold. But the state was still heavily in debt, although growing rapidly. In 1851 a new constitution (now in force) was adopted. The first constitution was adopted at a convention assembled at Corydon, which had been the seat of government since December, 1813. The original statehouse, built of blue limestone, still stands; but in 1821, the site of the present capital, Indianapolis, was selected by the legislature. It was in the wilds, sixty miles from civilization. By 1910, it was a city of 225,000 inhabitants, and was the largest inland steam and electric railroad center in the United States that was not located on a navigable waterway. No railroad reached it before 1847.

Birth

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Birth		Person ID	Tree
1	Amanda	Abt 1836	Indiana, USA	I451098	Nederlandse voorouders
2	Elizabeth	Abt 1846	Indiana, USA	I451105	Nederlandse voorouders
3	Lois	1911	Indiana, USA	I449377	Nederlandse voorouders
4	Beeson, Allen	8 Dec 1892	Indiana, USA	I311399	Geneagraphie
5	Beeson, Eliza Helen	18 Oct 1848	Indiana, USA	I311427	Geneagraphie
6	Beilharz, James Irvin	22 Mar 1865	Indiana, USA	I451588	Nederlandse voorouders
7	Benge, Thomas	27 Dec 1798	Indiana, USA	I451795	Nederlandse voorouders
8	Bennett, Richard	21 May 1870	Indiana, USA	I739645	Nederlandse voorouders
9	Bouwma, Louwe	27 Sep 1897	Indiana, USA	I149836	Nederlandse voorouders
10	Brown, Lydia	Nov 1867	Indiana, USA	I449395	Nederlandse voorouders
11	Clark, George S.	12 Nov 1826	Indiana, USA	I203467	Geneagraphie
12	Fielder, Adelia	Abt 1812	Indiana, USA	I451351	Nederlandse voorouders
13	Fielder, Brown	May 1893	Indiana, USA	I449398	Nederlandse voorouders
14	Fielder, Buelah	Apr 1891	Indiana, USA	I449397	Nederlandse voorouders
15	Fielder, Enos	Abt 1808	Indiana, USA	I451348	Nederlandse voorouders
16	Fielder, Kenneth	1907	Indiana, USA	I449400	Nederlandse voorouders
17	Fielder, Martha	Abt 1815	Indiana, USA	I451352	Nederlandse voorouders
18	Fielder, Mary	1906	Indiana, USA	I449399	Nederlandse voorouders
19	Fielder, Perry	May 1887	Indiana, USA	I449396	Nederlandse voorouders
20	Hacker, Lucinda	Abt 1843	Indiana, USA	I453210	Nederlandse voorouders
21	Handley, Jeremiah Washington	15 Aug 1820	Indiana, USA	I452738	Nederlandse voorouders
22	Helvie, Abraham	1848	Indiana, USA	I311638	Geneagraphie
23	Helvie, Eliza	1850	Indiana, USA	I311639	Geneagraphie
24	Helvie, Samuel	1854	Indiana, USA	I311640	Geneagraphie
25	Jackson, Michael Joseph	29 Aug 1958	Indiana, USA	I678615	Nederlandse voorouders
26	Lindemann, John Christian	1860	Indiana, USA	I48568	Nederlandse voorouders
27	Mullican, Dorothy	21 May 1906	Indiana, USA	I691171	Nederlandse voorouders
28	Porter, Cole Albert	09 Jun 1891	Indiana, USA	I691873	Nederlandse voorouders
29	Reed, Lula D	25 Sep 1897	Indiana, USA	I46115	Nederlandse voorouders
30	Reeves, Robert Fletcher	30 Aug 1836	Indiana, USA	I451802	Nederlandse voorouders
31	Smith, Joseph Sumner	Abt 1879	Indiana, USA	I518128	Nederlandse voorouders
32	Swank, Howard	Abt 1868	Indiana, USA	I452159	Nederlandse voorouders
33	Timbrooke, Clara Alice	Nov 1876	Indiana, USA	I448710	Nederlandse voorouders
34	Ulery, John	1857	Indiana, USA	I312048	Geneagraphie
35	Utter, Annie	Abt 1859	Indiana, USA	I451112	Nederlandse voorouders
36	Utter, Belle	Abt 1857	Indiana, USA	I451110	Nederlandse voorouders
37	Utter, Benton	Abt 1864	Indiana, USA	I451106	Nederlandse voorouders
38	Utter, Charles	Abt 1857	Indiana, USA	I451099	Nederlandse voorouders
39	Utter, Elvessa Jane	Dec 1852	Indiana, USA	I450536	Nederlandse voorouders
40	Utter, Franklin	Abt 1859	Indiana, USA	I451101	Nederlandse voorouders
41	Utter, Jennie	Abt 1868	Indiana, USA	I451107	Nederlandse voorouders
42	Utter, Leonard	Abt 1864	Indiana, USA	I451103	Nederlandse voorouders
43	Utter, Lillyann	Abt 1869	Indiana, USA	I451104	Nederlandse voorouders
44	Utter, Mary	Abt 1854	Indiana, USA	I451109	Nederlandse voorouders
45	Utter, Nancy Jane	14 Feb 1832	Indiana, USA	I451095	Nederlandse voorouders
46	Utter, Oscar	Abt 1861	Indiana, USA	I451102	Nederlandse voorouders
47	Walker, Marion A.	1878	Indiana, USA	I449403	Nederlandse voorouders
48	Wesner, Elizabeth	13 Oct 1834	Indiana, USA	I384707	Geneagraphie
49	Wilber, Arthur W.	1914	Indiana, USA	I452906	Nederlandse voorouders
50	Wilber, Joseph O.	1905	Indiana, USA	I452904	Nederlandse voorouders

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Death

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	Last Name, Given Name(s)	Death		Person ID	Tree
1	Fielder, Robert	Abt 1864	Indiana, USA	I449382	Nederlandse voorouders
2	Hasket, Thomas	Aft 1806	Indiana, USA	I205628	Geneagraphie
3	Kucera, Douglas	15 Sep 1987	Indiana, USA	I607415	Nederlandse voorouders
4	Steinberg, Adeline Louise	31 Mar 2008	Indiana, USA	I607418	Nederlandse voorouders
5	Willson, Jeremiah Sr.	Abt Dec 1828	Indiana, USA	I202976	Geneagraphie

Marriage

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	Family	Marriage		Family ID	Tree
1	Doorlag / Hoogerman	24 Nov 1934	Indiana, USA	F125846	Nederlandse voorouders
2	Irwin / Edwards	24 Jul 1865	Indiana, USA	F175346	Nederlandse voorouders
3	Prow / Oostmeyer	1932	Indiana, USA	F246130	Nederlandse voorouders
4	Rienks /	1913	Indiana, USA	F24136	Nederlandse voorouders
5	Ulery / Marshall	28 Mar 1903	Indiana, USA	F124578	Geneagraphie