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Terre Haute, Indiana, housed the headquarters of the canal from 1847 through 1876, when the canal lands were sold at an auction conducted by resident trustee Thomas Dowling at the Vigo County Court House.
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Cannon was born in Guilford, Guilford County, North Carolina, and in 1840 moved with his parents to Annapolis, Indiana, about 30 miles north of Terre Haute, Indiana.
Asked by Terre Haute politician and lawyer John Palmer Usher, future Secretary of the Interior under President Abraham Lincoln, to testify in a slander case, Cannon became fascinated with the law.
Eventually, he asked Usher if he could study law under him and moved to Terre Haute.
In 1858, he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Terre Haute, Indiana but was disappointed when Usher refused to offer him a place in his office.
He is currently serving his sentence, with a projected release date of May 23, 2019, at the Federal Correctional Institution at Terre Haute, Indiana in the Communication Management Unit.
He was pastor of the Congregational Church in Terre Haute, Indiana from 1860 to 1865 and of the New England Church in New York City in 1865-1869.
After President George W. Bush approved the execution ( McVeigh was a federal inmate and federal law dictates that the President must approve the execution of federal prisoners ), he was executed by lethal injection at the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute in Terre Haute, Indiana, on June 11.
Many of these reforms were also in the Socialist Party platform under its leader, Terre Haute native Eugene V. Debs.
His execution took place on June 11, 2001 at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute, Indiana.
United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, the site of the federal death row for men and the federal execution chamber
The BOP moved McVeigh from ADX Florence to the federal death row at United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1999.
" He was executed by lethal injection at 7: 14 a. m. on June 11, 2001, at the U. S. Federal Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, the first convicted criminal to be executed by the United States federal government since Victor Feguer was executed in Iowa on March 15, 1963.
His body was cremated at Mattox Ryan Funeral Home in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Sarah and John Paul Dreiser, a strict Catholic family.
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Eugene Debs was born on November 5, 1855, in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Jean Daniel and Marguerite Mari Bettrich Debs, who both immigrated to the United States from Colmar, Alsace, France.
Debs joined the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen ( BLF ) in February 1875 and became active in this fraternal benefit organization, being sent as a delegate by the Terre Haute lodge to the organization's national convention in 1877.
Their home still stands in Terre Haute, within Indiana State University.
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While Debs did not leave a collection of papers to a university library, the pamphlet collection that he and his brother amassed now resides at Indiana State University in Terre Haute.
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Strunk first taught mathematics at Rose Polytechnical Institute in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1890 – 91.
The National Road continued into Indiana along modern U. S. 40, passing by the cities of Terre Haute and Indianapolis.
Clay County is included in the Terre Haute, Indiana, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Its campus is located in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Category: Education in Terre Haute, Indiana
Terre and housed
The statue is now housed in the Terre Haute Historical Society Museum.
As of May 14, 2010, 52 male federal death row prisoners were housed at United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute.
Timothy McVeigh, who carried out the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, was housed at ADX before he was sentenced to death in 1997 and transferred to the United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute, which houses federal death row.
The neighboring Bement-Rea Building ( which housed a noted local tavern, T's Lounge, until its closure at the end of October 2005 ) and former Fort Harrison Savings & Loan were demolished along with the Terre Haute House, although some ( but not all ) historically significant items were removed from the buildings prior to their demise.
Terre and headquarters
Between 1835 and late 1839, Terre Haute served as the headquarters for the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers under Major Cornelius A. Ogden during the construction of the National Road.
Its headquarters are now in Terre ' Blanche's hometown of Ventersdorp.
After retiring from coaching, Hickey managed the American Automobile Association headquarters in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Terre and canal
The canal finally reached Terre Haute in October 1849.
Founded by Chauncey Rose, the Terre Haute and Richmond Railroad began operations between Terre Haute and Indianapolis in February 1852 and its traffic soon surpassed that on the canal.
The canal known as the Wabash & Erie in the 1850s and thereafter, was actually a combination of four canals: the Miami and Erie Canal from the Maumee River near Toledo, Ohio to Junction, Ohio, the original Wabash and Erie Canal from Junction, Ohio to Terre Haute, Indiana, the Cross Cut Canal from Terre Haute, Indiana to Worthington, Indiana ( Point Commerce ), and the Central Canal from Worthington to Evansville, Indiana.
The canal reached Lafayette by 1843, Terre Haute by 1848 and Evansville by 1853 .< ref > Andrew R. L. Cayton, < cite > Frontier Indiana </ cite > ( Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1996 ), 285 .</ ref >
Continuing down the Wabash to Terre Haute, the canal turns southeast from the Wabash, using several other riverways, until reaching the Ohio River in Evansville.
Between Terre Haute and Worthington, the canal route left the Wabash River and was legally considered to be the Cross Cut Canal.
Terre and from
John ( 24 December 1166 – 18 / 19 October 1216 ), also known as John Lackland ( Norman French: Johan sanz Terre ), was King of England from 6 April 1199 until his death.
The name Newfoundland is derived from English as " New Found Land " ( a translation from the Portuguese Terra Nova, and still reflected in the province's French language name, " Terre Neuve ").
This stone mask from the pre-ceramic neolithic period dates to 7000 BC and is probably the oldest mask in the world ( Musée de la bible et Terre Sainte )
Only in his picture of rural working-class life in La Terre and in the corresponding picture of industrial working-class life in Germinal, does Zola convincingly escape from Paris into the provinces.
He served two terms as Terre Haute's city clerk from September 1879 to September 1883.
When Debs was released from the Atlanta Penitentiary, the other prisoners sent him off with " a roar of cheers " and a crowd of 50, 000 greeted his return to Terre Haute to the accompaniment of band music.
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Category: People from Terre Haute, Indiana
When they were eight or from home near the crossing of the Terre Bleu, they were met by the Native Americans and all, save Rebecca and Abraham Baker, were stripped of their clothing and left to find their way home in this plight ; the wagon loaded with venison, intended for the wedding feast, was also robbed.
runs the length of the county from north to south on its way to Terre Haute in the south ; begins at State Road 63 near Newport and runs southwest, then south through Dana and Bono before ending at Blanford.
CSX Transportation operates a railroad line running from Danville, Illinois to Terre Haute ; this line runs most of the length of Vermillion County from north to south, passing through Rilesyburg, Cayuga, and Clinton before crossing the Wabash River.
While escorting supplies from Fort Knox near Vincennes to Fort Harrison at Terre Haute, Sergeant Nathan Fairbanks and approximately a dozen soldiers were ambushed-and most killed-by Indians.
U. S. Route 41 enters from Fountain County to the north and intersects U. S. Route 36 in Rockville ; it then goes southwest toward Clinton before continuing south to Vigo County and Terre Haute.
A small portion of a major CSX Transportation railroad line passes through the southwest corner of the county, entering from Clinton to the west, then going south toward Terre Haute.
Another CSX line enters the far southeastern corner of the county on its way from Terre Haute to Indianapolis.
is a north – south highway which enters from Warren County in the north and passes through Attica, then goes directly south through Veedersburg and on toward Terre Haute.
He attended school in Veedersburg, graduated from college in 1849, was admitted to the bar, and began practicing law in Covington ; he moved to Terre Haute in 1857.
He graduated from Covington High School, then from Indiana State University in Terre Haute ; he served in the United States Army, and later was elected to the United States House of Representatives and was reelected 14 times, serving from 1967 to 1997.
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