The Hoosiers by Meredith Nicholson - HTML preview

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Dunn’s “Indiana,” p. 302 et seq.

[2] Preface to “The Hoosier Schoolmaster,” Library Edition.

[3] McCulloch’s “Men and Measures,” p. 78.

[4] Preface to “The Hoosier Schoolmaster,” Library Edition.

[5] “Old Virginia and Her Neighbors,” II, 320.

[6] Statistical Atlas, U. S. Census, 1890, p. 24.

[7] Smith’s “Early Indiana Trials,” p. 6.

[8] “History of Indianapolis and Marion County,” p. 72.

[9] “Early Indiana Trials,” p. 450.

[10] “Sketches,” p. 45.

[11] Woollen’s “Sketches,” p. 265.

[12] Banta’s “Johnson County,” p. 55.

[13] The Current, November, 1884.

[14] “The New Purchase,” p. 401.

[15] “Neighborly Poems,” p. 26.

[16] Report of W. A. Ketcham, attorney-general, 1897-8, p. 173.

[17] Fifth Edition, 1872, pp. 171-172.

[18] The Forum, Vol. 14, p. 465.

[19] Sulgrove, p. 90.

[20] “Dialect Notes,” Part VIII, p. 392.

[21] “The New Purchase,” p. 143.

[22] “Dialect Notes,” Part IV, p. 211.

[23] D before i or u does not become j in cultivated usage anywhere at the west. Personally, I have never heard Injiana within the State; but I have heard it from a Bostonian, a native of Maine, who had never lived outside of New England.

[24] “Souvenir of the Western Association of Writers,” 1891.

[25] “Indiana Methodism,” p. 317.

[26] Edson’s “Early Indiana Presbyterianism,” p. 171.

[27] Evans’s “Pioneer Preachers,” p. 43; Edson’s “Early Indiana Presbyterianism,” p. 40.

[28] Goodwin’s “Heroic Women of Indiana Methodism,” p. 9.

[29] Woodburn’s “Higher Education in Indiana,” p. 31.

[30] Woodburn, p. 75.

[31] In Dr. Hall’s narrative “Woodville,” “Spiceburg,” “Sugartown,” “Sproutsburg,” and “Timberopolis” are respectively Bloomington, Spencer, Crawfordsville, Lafayette, and Indianapolis. The author assumes the names “Carlton” and “Mr. Clarence.” “Cutswell” became Governor Whitcomb; “The Rev. James Hilsbury” is the Rev. Isaac Reed; “Dr. Bloduplex” is Dr. Wiley, and “Dr. Shrub” is the Rev. George Bush.

[32] Banta’s “History of Indiana University,” p. 44.

[33] Boone’s “History of Education in Indiana,” p. 87.

[34] “Caleb Mills and Indiana Common Schools,” Tuttle Miscellany, Vol. 38.

[35] Boone’s “Education in Indiana,” p. 87.

[36] Boone, supra, p. 104 et seq.

[37] In 1899 Indiana’s total school fund, exclusive of college endowment, was $10,312,000. The school revenue for that year, from all sources, was $6,534,300. The census of 1890 showed the per cent of illiterates (ten years of age and older) in Indiana to be 6.32; in Ohio 5.24; in Illinois 5.25; in Michigan 5.92. In Massachusetts it was 6.22; in New York 5.53; in New Jersey 6.50; in Pennsylvania 6.78.

[38] “Some Western Schoolmasters,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 17, p. 747.

[39] Scribner’s, supra.

[40] One of the passengers on “the boat load of knowledge,” Victor Duclas, is still living (July, 1900) at New Harmony.

[41] The Forum, November, 1890.

[42] The Forum, supra.

[43] “War Papers,” Indiana Commandery, Loyal Legion, 1898.

[44] “Essays at Home and Elsewhere,” p. 211.

[45] “Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley,” by W. H. Venable, LL.D., p. 58 et seq.

[46] Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 35.

[47] Indianapolis News, March 2, 1895.