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Reitz was the first individual in Indiana and the third individual in the United States to receive the high honor. [2] Reitz also gave heavily to Evansville's Little Sisters of the Poor on behalf of his father, John Augustus Reitz, and was a strong supporter of St. Vincent Orphanage in Vincennes. He didn't confine his generosity to his own ...
Conrad Baker, 15th governor of Indiana (1867–1873) and 15th lieutenant governor (1861–1867) George Washington Buckner, physician, U.S. minister to Liberia; Larry Bucshon, U.S. Representative (2011–present) Suzanne Crouch, former lieutenant governor of Indiana and former Indiana State Auditor
The land encompassing Evansville was formally relinquished by the Delaware in 1805 to General William Henry Harrison, then governor of the Indiana Territory. The city of Evansville, Indiana was founded in 1812 and incorporated in 1817. It is situated on an oxbow in the Ohio River, and is often referred to as the "Crescent Valley" or "River City".
Conrad Baker (1817–1885), 15th Governor of Indiana; William Heilman (1824–1890), U.S. Representative; Charles Harvey Denby (1830–1904), U.S. Union officer in the Civil War and diplomat; John W. Foster (1836–1917), American diplomat and former U.S. Secretary of State; Annie Fellows Johnston (1863–1931), American author of The Little ...
Unhoused Evansville man Marvin Ray Beck died from hypothermia. Public records and newspaper archives give some details about his life. Evansville man found frozen to death had lived on the streets ...
The Evansville Courier & Press is a daily newspaper based in Evansville, Indiana. It serves about 30,000 daily and 50,000 Sunday readers. It serves about 30,000 daily and 50,000 Sunday readers. History
Vanderburgh County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana.As of 2020, the population was 180,136. [2] The county seat is in Evansville. [3] While Vanderburgh County was the eighth-largest county in 2020 population in Indiana, it is also the eighth-smallest county in area and the smallest in southwestern Indiana, covering only 236 square miles (610 km 2).
Front page of the Indianapolis Leader, one of Indiana's first African American newspapers. Newspaper rack with issues of the Gary Crusader in 2020. Various African American newspapers have been published in Indiana. The Evansville weekly Our Age, which was in circulation by 1878, is the first known African American newspaper in Indiana. [1]