in Chemistry, 1974 ), founding president of Vassar College Milo Parker Jewett, founder and first president of Bates College Oren B. Cheney, founder and first president of Kenyon College Philander Chase, first professor of Wabash College Caleb Mills, and former president of Union College Charles Augustus Aiken.

in English from Wabash College in 1970, and, in 1971, a Masters in Education from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Category: Wabash College alumni

* Wabash College

At age fifteen his parents sent him to Wabash College, in Crawfordsville, where he received a classical education.

Category: Wabash College alumni

Wabash College is a small, private, liberal arts college for men, located in Crawfordsville, Indiana, US.

Founded in 1832 by several Dartmouth College graduates and Midwestern leaders, Wabash is one of three remaining traditional all-men's liberal arts colleges in the United States.

It was initially named " The Wabash Teachers Seminary and Manual Labor College " but was soon changed as the college solidified.

Joseph F. Tuttle, after whom Tuttle Grade School in Crawfordsville was named in 1906 and Tuttle Middle School in 1960, became President of Wabash College in 1862 and served for 30 years.

During World War II, Wabash College was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.

According to the Princeton Review's Annual Rankings of College, Wabash was ranked nationally in the following categories:

Wabash College is also listed in Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives.

The student government, referred to collectively as the Student Body of Wabash College, comprises executive and legislative branches.

The Student Senate of Wabash College is the legislative authority, consisting of senators from each residence hall and fraternity, four representatives from each of the three underclasses, and the chairmen of the Senate's standing committees.

The Senior Council of Wabash College is a special quasi-legislative body comprising the presidents of certain student organizations and self-selected at-large councilmen.

Every year since 1911, Wabash College has played rival DePauw University in a football game called the Monon Bell Classic.

Wabash College is a member of the North Coast Athletic Conference.

Wabash won the 1981 – 82 NCAA Division III title with a 24 – 4 record.

Wabash won the first national intercollegiate championship basketball tournament ever held in 1922.

Wabash College won the Division III NCAA basketball title in 1982.

Memorial Stadium, the home field for Indiana State's NCAA Football Championship Subdivision football team of the Missouri Valley Football Conference, and the women's soccer team is located on Wabash Avenue, two miles ( 3 km ) east of the main campus.

* Cross Country-LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course, Wabash Valley Family Sports Center

* Cross Country-LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course, Wabash Valley Family Sports Center

Born in Wabash, Indiana, he drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1950, 1953 – 1957, 1959, and 1961-1962 seasons with 20 starts.

Kirksville ’ s other railroad, the Wabash Railroad, which became the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1960 and later became the Norfolk Southern Railway in 1982 after N & W merged with Southern Railway, ran north and south.

The legendary Bluegrass guitarist Doc Watson and his son Merle included a rhapsodic version of The Wabash Cannon Ball on the live album Doc Watson on Stage in 1982, reissued on CD in 1990.

They had initially selected the land near the Wabash River for its isolation and opportunity for expansion, but the Harmonites were now a great distance from the eastern markets and trade in this location wasn't to their liking.

DePaul University now owns their Wabash building.

While most Wabash fraternities allow juniors and seniors to live outside the house, the majority of Greek students live in their respective house all four years.

The settlement of Armiesburg in Wabash Township was so named because Harrison and his army crossed the Raccoon Creek and camped near there on their way to the battle.

In 1894 local workers supported a strike against the Wabash and many of those who had supported the strike lost their jobs to strikebreakers.

In May 1815 the last of the Harmonists who had remained behind until the sale of their town in Pennsylvania was completed departed for their new town along the Wabash River.

It is worth noting that Eastern capitalists had invested heavily in Port Lawrence real estate mistakenly guessing that the area would enjoy commercial success due to the construction of the Wabash and Erie Canal hoping that it would terminate in Toledo instead of Maumee thus keeping their holdings in wealthy and established Ohio.

The Purple Line stations at Davis and Main are immediately to the east of their Metra counterparts, while the Washington / Wells, Quincy, LaSalle / Van Buren, and Randolph / Wabash stations on the express leg are within walking distance of Metra trains at Ogilvie Transportation Center, Union Station, LaSalle Street Station, and Millennium Station, respectively.

Only the Miami opposed the treaty ; they presented their copy of the Treaty of Greenville and read the section that guaranteed their possession of the lands around the Wabash River.

The next day, Clark and his men crossed the Wabash by canoe, leaving their packhorses behind.

In order to consolidate their lobbying efforts, the two companies merged on March 13, 1779, becoming the United Illinois and Wabash Land Company.

In the Battle of the Wabash ( St. Clair's Defeat ) American Indians achieved their highest rate of casualties against the US Army.

The local Purdue press picked up on the name, with a notice in the November 1, 1891 Lafayette Sunday Times, " As everyone knows, Purdue went down to Wabash last Saturday and defeated their eleven.

The Wabash used the cars on their " Bluebird ", Chicago to St. Louis, and the Chesapeake and Ohio for the " Chessie " which never went into service.

Over their respective decades of influence from colonial times to after the American Revolution and Northwest Wars, the French, British and American all established trading posts and forts at the large village, as it was located on an important portage connecting Lake Erie to the Wabash and Mississippi rivers.

An arrangement of " Wabash Cannonball " was recorded by Robert Fripp & The League Of Crafty Guitarists on their album Intergalactic Boogie Express: Live in Europe.

Richardville and his mother made most of their income from the fur trade and control of a portage connecting the Maumee River to the Little River, known today as the Little Wabash River.

Burbeck buried 200 skulls and numerous bones from Arthur St. Claire's defeat and interred them as two brass cannons from the 1791 action, recovered by Burbeck in the Wabash, were discharged in their honor.

" On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away " is played at the event as the race cars move into their starting positions, a period that receives little television coverage, while " Back Home Again in Indiana " is sung just before the start of the race and is broadcast publicly.

On June 24, 1791, Arthur St. Clair encouraged the Board of War to organize a second expedition into the Wabash region and to remove their outposts along the Ohio River to free up manpower and finances as a prelude to his larger invasion.

The question of the sale price of the property was finally answered when the Tribune-Star reported in its September 29, 2005, edition that the three buildings were sold by Terre Haute Realty Corp. to Seventh & Wabash for $ 1, but, according to filings with the Vigo County auditor, in the end it was the Hulmans who paid Gibson — rather than the other way around — in the form of a " development fee ", just to take the property off their hands.

However, the owners and tenants of nearby buildings, many of which are also in the Wabash Avenue East National Register Historic District, expressed concern that blowing up the 10-story tower could severely damage or even destroy their homes and places of business.