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Brownsburg History Club receives the
Society’s John H. Holliday Award
hands-on understanding of local and Indiana history.
They accomplished this by doing a number of small fund-
raisers to provide funds to
allow Club members to attend the Presidential Inauguration
in Washington in January. Over 40 students were able to
attend, and local field trips also were held to historic sites.
The Club also played a key
role in supporting other history projects for Club members,
such as a mural painted on the B&O trail and the Wounded
Warrior Project. By the end of its first year, the Club had over
120 members!
This year’s ceremony was
The Society of Indiana Pio-neers John H. Holliday Award
was established in 1970 by the Society to honor Mr. Holliday,
its founding president. The
cash award of $300 is given annually to an Indiana Junior
Historical Society club. To be considered for the Holliday
Award, clubs must participate in a project, program or activi-
ty related to early Indiana his-
tory in the current school year. The competition is adminis-
tered by the Indiana Historical Society.
This year’s winner was the Brownsburg History Club at
Brownsburg High School. The Club, in its first year, created a
project to give students a
President’s Message: Michael Miller
As the State of Indiana approaches its 200th year of
statehood, its people and or-ganizations are beginning the
motions and formulating plans
to take part in a meaningful way. Many organizations
might not clearly be perceived as having had a part in the
development or growth of our state, but should you reflect on
each enterprise and their con-
tribution to today’s society, you might be surprised.
Every Pioneer that made
his/her way to Indiana was
blessed with certain skills that allowed them to survive and
thrive. By the end of the “Pioneer Period,” not every-
one in Indiana was engaged solely in agricultural pursuits.
The many settlers that made
Indiana their home needed
clergy, blacksmiths, grain mil-lers, general merchants, bank-
ers, artists, writers, musicians etc. in order to build the com-
munities and settle the territo-
ry. While it may be noted there are few if any of those
original businesses still in exist-ence, their trades still endure.
So, as we begin to formulate and plan our 200th birthday –
remember the importance of
the work done by these people. If nothing else, consider under-
standing the contribution your Indiana pioneer family mem-
bers provided to the communi-ty as a whole. Sure times were
tough, but imagine not having
the resource of a skilled crafts-man, perhaps a neighbor, to
assist on a job you were not equipped to handle. It was the
people and their willingness to
THE SOCIETY
OF
INDIANA
PIONEERS
Newsletter Date: Summer 2013 Volume 1 Issue 8
Pioneer
Times TO HONOR THE MEMORY AND THE WORK OF THE PIONEERS OF INDIANA
ORGANIZED 1916 INCORPORATED 1922
Office: 140 North Senate Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46204-2207
www.indianapioneers.com societyofindianapioneers
@yahoo.com
317-233-6588
Inside this issue:
Marketing &
Advertising 2
Speakers Bureau 2
2013 Fall Pilgrim-
ages 2
John Hampden
Holliday Prize 3
New Members 3
Photos from the
Spring Pilgrimage 3
Pioneer Founders 4
The Joseph Frick-
er Story 4
1816 and 1850
Convention Dele-
gates
6
held on Friday, May 24, at the
Indiana Historical Society's head-
quarters building
Ancestors: 8,501
Total Members: 933
This includes: Life Members: 124 Junior Members: 21
Associate Members: 26
work together that made the Indi-ana experience (experiment) a
reality.
In the weeks and months
ahead, please consider reaching out to a small or flourishing his-
torical society. Ask how you might help them. Remember
your talents and help them be-
come aware of them. Consider giving of your time and talent to
their cause. Further, if there are any younger generations of Hoos-
iers looking for something new to immerse themselves into, bring
them along.
The State has already begun
gearing up for our 2016 Bicenten-nial. Every town and city has a
story to tell related to the growth
and development of our state. The time is now to get energized
as the time to tell your communi-ty’s story as part of the statewide
celebration will pass quickly.
Pioneers Board member William
Rhodehamel, great-grandson of
the Award’s namesake, makes the
presentation to Benjamin Fouch,
President of the winning club.
first press release to all news-papers in Indiana.
On June 15, the Board of Governors voted to allocate
money for ordering more of the new Society DVDs for
distribution statewide to or-ganizations such as genealogy
-historical clubs and perhaps
to the Daughters of the Amer-ican Revolution and to the
Sons of the American Revolu-
Marketing and Advertising
tion Chapters.
If you belong to an organi-
zation that needs or would
like a 13 minute program on
DVD, please contact the Soci-
ety office.
The Society has successfully completed the newspaper ads for
2013 and has sent a second press release to the newspapers of the
18 counties featured in this year's
Pioneer Founders of Indiana program. The content of the
press release was to remind read-ers of the opportunity to partici-
pate in the honoring of their Indiana ancestor. A special
thanks to the anonymous donor
of $125.00 for sponsoring the
Friday, September 6, 2013
Limberlost, Amish and Berne
Geneva and Berne, Indiana
Following the popular Spring Pilgrimage last year to the
Rome City/Wildflower Woods
(second) cabin of acclaimed naturalist Gene Stratton-
Porter, this tour will visit her cherished home, the original
Limberlost cabin in Geneva.
During her 25 years
in Geneva, she burst to fame and wrote thirteen books about
the Hoosier region that in-spired her, including the inter-
national bestseller “A Girl of
the Limberlost” (1909).
Other highlights of the trip to northeastern Indiana will in-
clude visits to an Amish school
& home; a local expert will share insights about the faith
community & their distinctive
Page 2
Speakers Bureau
Two presentations were given in Flora Indiana by
Carolyn Rose and Stanley Evans.
1. The Flora Rotary Club May 2nd to 10 members
2. The Carroll County/White County joint meeting
May 20th of the DAR with 18 members present.
David Cook spoke to a Marion County PEO group
on July 17.
Please call the office if you
are in need of a speaker for an organization.
way of life.
Also included is the historic town of Berne, which was
founded by Mennonites in the 1850s & designed to resemble a
Swiss village. The town has a new, 160-foot glockenspiel, the
Muensterberg Clock Tower.
The contractor who built it will greet and address the tour.
For additional information
and/or reservations, please go to
the EVENTS tab on the home page of the website.
Offered by: Sue Thomson Travel Price: $119 per person
Flora Rotary Club presentation: Jane and Dick Bishop , Carolyn
Rose and Stanley Evans.
2013 Fall Pilgrimage:
The Society of Indiana Pio-neers would like to welcome the
following new members who
have joined since March 15, 2012:
Regular:
Boyd, Susan Jean Mayer Gay
McComb, MS
Carpenter, John Christopher Iowa City, IA
Carpenter, Rachel Woodrow Modoc, IN
Carpenter, Sam Clark Indianapolis, IN
Carpenter, Wendy
Modoc, IN
Welcome New Members: Clark, Amanda Kaye Ford
New Castle, IN
Drexler, Louis Paul Greenwood, IN
Haywood, Helen Thom
Indianapolis, IN
Hutchinson, Mary Foster
Northglenn, CO
Larsen, Carmen Patricia
Los Angeles, CA
Maddix, Linda Wagner Sedalia, MO
McCammon, Mobie L Bloomington, IN
Riddle, Martha Kilgore Fairborn, OH
2013 Spring Pilgrimage—Great Fun!
John
Hampden
Holliday
Prize
$5,000
Page 3 John Hampden Holliday Prize
Prize will be awarded to up to
three individuals who make the most significant contribution to
the field of Indiana pioneer his-tory in works published in the
years 2013, 2014, 2015 or 2016. The top prize will be the sum
of five thousand dollars ($5,000),
with second and third prizes being awarded in lesser
amounts.
The prize will be awarded at
a Centennial-Bicentennial Ban-quet in December of 2016,
along with appropriate trophies. Nominations must be submitted
on or before February 1, 2016.
For additional information,
please go to the 2016
CENTENNIAL tab on the
home page of the website.
In anticipated celebration of the
Society's centennial and the upcom-ing bicentennial of the State of Indi-
ana in December of 2016, the Socie-ty of Indiana Pioneers has launched
an award for the promotion of the highest quality of scholarship, re-
search and writing about Indiana
Pioneer History from pre-history to and including the year 1851.
The John Hampden Holliday
Schweitzer, Stephanie Myers
McCordsville, IN
Sons, Jeaneen Terry Bedford, IN
Storm, Arlen Ray Puyallup, WA
Troyer, David Lloyd Odessa, FL
Troyer, John Jacob II
Clearwater, FL
Wagner, Linda Thatcher
Sun City, AZ
Another successful and fun pil-
grimage was had this past May. Pictured are: a view of the Irwin
House and Gardens from the Tea House; the North Christian
Church, designed in 1960 by
Eero Saarinen; and Zahara-kos, an ice cream parlor and
museum .
Attention All Pioneers!!
sent via mail or email to the Society's office.
If you have any ques-tions, please call Sally on
Monday or Wednesday from 9 o'clock until 2 o'clock or
leave a message on our phone.
Remember---all nomina-
tions for this year are due by
September 15, 2013. Let's all
make an effort to tell our fam-
ily story and remember the
memory of those men and
women who built the founda-
tion of this great State of Indi-
ana.
See sample nomination story be-
low.
Sample from this Year’s Pioneer Founders Booklet
“I wou1d 1ike to
nominate this
Indiana pioneer
because, in spite of
the fact that he did
not lead an
important life, he
did lead a very active
and somewhat
interesting life.”
Douglas Fraker
Page 4
The Pioneer Founders of
Indiana program is moving rapidly along. Remember we
have just one more year and then all 92 counties will have
been covered. So let's get those nominations written for this
year. Don't forget that if the
county of your ancestor has been covered in 2010, 2011, or
2012 it is still possible to nomi-nate an ancestor for we will
print them in our 2013 book.
All nominations should be
Below is a sample of a
Pioneer Founders of Indiana story that will appear in this
year’s booklet. The booklet will be available on the Socie-
ty’s website sometime in No-vember, 2013.
Joseph Fricker
Joseph Fricker1 (22 Au-gust 17952 - 4 July 1874) was
born at the village of Unteral-phen in the Grand Duchy of
Baden in southwest Germany. He was the son of, another
Joseph Fricker (1740-1812)
and Anna Dellerin3 (1760- ). The older Joseph, a native of
the village of Oberhof in the Aargau of Switzerland, was
working in Oberalphen as a
"Herrschaftlicher Mayer", a term that I have not been able to trans-
late adequately. I assume that he held some sort of administrative
position. The older Joseph retired some time before 1803 and moved
his family to his traditional home
in Oberhof. While living there he and his wife had another son.
Fidel (also known as Felix) was born on the 3th of April, 1803.
Papa Joseph then died on 1 Janu-ary 1812 leaving his widow and
children to live off the municipal
dole until they left Oberhof for America in May of 1817.
The Fricker family joined an emi-gration party led by Marx Rey-
mann of Wӧlfhnswil (a village
very near Oberhof) with the in-
tention to travel down the Rhine to Amsterdam and thence to
Philadelphia. The move was caused by events half way around
the world in the Dutch East In-dies. On April 10th and 11th,
1815, the volcano Tambora4
erupted, killing 88,000 people living in the area. The result of
the explosion for the rest of the world was two years of disrupted
weather patterns and, in Europe, reduced agricultural production
resulting in famine. The result for
the Fricker family was that, after the 1816 famine in Switzerland,
they were on the move to Ameri-ca the next spring.
Upon arriving at Amsterdam they boarded the soon to be noto-
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rious Dutch ship April under
the command of Captain
DeGroot.5 The ship left Am-sterdam with 233 passengers
on board, but the owners of the April ordered the captain
to take on emigrants from three other ships bringing the
total to 1,200. Before the ship could leave the Nether-
lands, it was placed in quar-antine at Texel because of
typhus. On leaving port at
Texel, the April had 720 pas-
sengers, of which 125 died during the passage to Ameri-
ca. They arrived in America, at the port of Newcastle,
Delaware,6 on 1 January 1818, after making a harrow-
ing seven and half month trip
from Switzerland to Ameri-ca, surrounded most of the
time by the deaths of their fellow travelers.
The Frickers traveled as "Redemptioners", that is to
say, people who would be sold at indenture to recoup
the cost of their passage for the owners of the ship. Thus
they started their lives in
America in a milder form of slavery.
In the 1820 Federal Cen-
sus, Joseph appears living in
Wilmington, Delaware. By 5 May 1822, Joseph's condition
had improved to the extent that he could take a wife. He
and Francina Corso7 were married in the Cathedral of
St. Peter (RC) at Wilming-
ton, Delaware, by the Rev. Patrick Kenny. Their chil-
dren were all born in Wil-mington and baptized in the
same church. Francina died in October of 1837 and Jo-
seph was, apparently, pre-
pared to leave Delaware after living there for sixteen years.
It is rumored that the
widower and his children
lived for a short time in or near Cincinnati, Ohio, but I
have no documentation to prove or disprove that asser-
tion. In any event Joseph and his children, Anna Ma-
rie, Joseph, Mary Jane, and
Ambrose arrived in Ham-blen Township, Brown
County, Indiana, by 3 Febru-ary 1840 and he had pur-
chased forty acres in Section 2 of Township 10 Range 38 •
This small farm was on Salt
Creek just north of Gold Point on what is now called "Green
Road." Apparently Joseph's second oldest surviving son,
William Carrel (1831-1889), was living with Joseph's sister Rosa
and her husband in Kentucky at
the time. William C. came to Indiana at a later, unspecified,
date.
During his time in Indiana
Joseph supported his family by farming. Sometime before 1860
Joseph married, for the second time, a lady, perhaps a widow,
named Sara Miller. She was born in 1795 in the same area of
Switzerland as Joseph.
Our pioneer had two more
moves left in him. In 1860 he and Sara were living in Wash-
ington Township, Morgan
County, in the household of one Peter Miller (perhaps Sara's
son?). By the 1870 Federal Cen-sus, they were living back in
Hamblen Township, Brown County, Indiana.
Joseph died on 4 July 1874, probably in Brown or Morgan
County. He is buried in Little Ireland (RC) Cemetery in Mor-
gan County near Martinsville.
Even though his children changed the spelling of the fami-
ly name, he continued to use "Fricker" throughout his life and
that spelling was used on his tombstone.
The four children that ac-companied Joseph to Brown
County, Indiana, are also quali-fied to be called Indiana Pio-
neers.
Joseph's oldest child was
Anna Marie who was born in Wilmington, Delaware, on 23
July 1825. She lived her entire life in Hamblen Township,
Brown County, and Hensley
Township, Johnson County. On 28 January 1848, she mar-
ried, in Brown County, John Wilson Paskins (1823-1872), a
Johnson County blacksmith and
farmer, who had just returned from the Mexican War. The
union was blessed with eight children. In late 1871, John
Paskins went to England to col-lect an inheritance and, while
there, was murdered in early
1872. But that is a story for another day. Anna Marie then
entered a forty-four year widow-
hood, dying in Trafalgar, Indiana,
on 25 July 1917.
The second pioneer child was Joseph. He was born in Wilming-
ton, Delaware, 1 February 1830. He
lived in Hamblen Township, Brown County, and was a blacksmith. He
married twice. His first wife was Mary Anne Gillaspy (1832- 1854),
and they were married on 9 Septem-ber 1852 in Brown County. They
had one son. Mary Anne and the
child both died within about a week of the child's birth. The second
spouse was Minerva Duncan (1836-1926). She married Joseph on 21
February 1855. They had two sons and two daughters. Joseph served
and died in the Civil War. He start-
ed his military career in October 1862 as a sergeant in Company H of
the Eighty-Second Indiana Infantry Regiment. On 1 September 1864,
he was discharged and mustered into the same company as a First
Lieutenant. He died in camp at
White Hall, Georgia, on 30 Septem-ber 1864. He was later posthu-
mously promoted to the rank of Captain.
The third pioneer child was Mary Jane. She was born in Wil-
mington, Delaware, on 4 March 1833. She married Peter H. Dine
(1833-1906) on 9 February 1853. They had one daughter and three
sons. She died on 30 October 1902.
The last pioneer child was the
author's ancestor, Ambrose Fraker. Ambrose was born in Wilmington,
Delaware, on 23 March 1836, thus
he moved to Indiana when he was three years old. Most of his life he
was a farmer and on 5 February 1853, at the relatively young age of
16, he was married to fifteen year old Margaret Ann Dine (1837-
1912). They had nine children.
During the Civil War, Ambrose was drafted and served as a private from
September 1864 until June 1865. He was a member of the Grand
Army of the Republic for the rest of his life. In 1883 he was appointed
Superintendent of the Brown Coun-
ty Asylum9 (a.k.a. "The Poor
Farm"). By 1912 Ambrose and his wife were living in Samaria in John-
son County. That is where Marga-ret Ann was struck by a train
(locally known as "Old Jerk") and
killed. Ambrose then moved to the home of his son John in Franklin
where he died on 28 January 1915.
Thus the Fraker family's
Pioneer Experience covered nearly one hundred years from 1817 to
legitimacy of their children born in Un-teralphen, Joseph, Rosa, and Anton.
3 Sometimes spelled Deller, or Teller or,
Tellerin. 4 Dr. Richard B. Simons, "German and Swiss
Redemptioners, State Laws and the U.S. Passenger Act of 1819." The Palatine
Immigrant, p. 4, December 1999. 5 Ibid. p. 20. 6 The intended destination was Philadelphia
but the Delaware River was frozen so solidly that the ship had to stop at New-
castle. 7 Francina is recorded on her Marriage
Certificate as "Corso" but her real name
was "Gass r." She was born in 1797 in
Switzerland and died in October 1837 in Wilmington.
8. John w. Hamblen, Ph.D. and Sandy Seitz, Federal Land Entries for Brown County,
Indiana p. 31. 9 Charles Blanchard, Editor, Counties of Morgan,
Monroe, & Brown, Indiana: Historical and
Biographical, p. 691.
Contributor:--Douglas C. Fraker
Page 6
1915 and almost seventy-five years of that century were spent
in Indiana. I guess we'll stay. 9
________________________ 1 When the family came from Europe the name
was spelled "Fricker." The spelling of the
name was changed to "Fraker" during the decade 1850-1860. Joseph used the
"Fricker" spelling all of his life but his
children, having been born "Frickers", died
"Frakers." 2 Date of Joseph's birth is proven by a Geburts
Schein consisting of a letter from Franz
Xaver Bornhauser of the Unteralphen,
Baden, (RC) parish attesting to the marriage
of Joseph Fricker to Anna Dellerin and the
1850-51 DELEGATES:
ADAMS/WELLS
E.K.Bascom
ALLEN
James W. Borden
Allen Hamilton
BARTHOLOMEW
Smith Jones
Z.Tannehill
BARTHOLOMEW
Smith Jones
Z. Tannehill
BENTON/PULASKI/
JASPER/WHITE
Jonathan Harbolt
Robert C. Kendall
BOONE Mark A. Duzan
William McClean
BLACKFORD Dixon Milligan
BROWN
Shadrach Chandler
BROWN
Shadrach Chandler
CARROLL Hiram Allen
The Society of Indiana Pioneers
is looking for today's descend-ants of the delegates of the 1816
and 1850 State Constitutional Conventions. It looks to honor
the delegates through their de-scendants as part of Indiana's
Bicentennial in 2016. If you are
or know of any descendants of the delegates listed below, please
contact our office in Indianapo-lis. The Society will provide
more information about our planning process in a forthcom-
ing issue of the newsletter. In
the meantime, spread the word to your local genealogy or his-
torical society. What a great way to commemorate Indiana's
200th birthday!
1816 DELEGATES:
From the county of Clark:
Jonathan Jennings
James Scott
Thomas Carr
John K. Graham
James Lemon.
From the county of Dearborn:
Ezra Ferris
James Dill
Solomon Manwaring
From the county of Franklin:
Robert Hanna,
James Noble
James Brownlee
William H. Eads
Enoch McCartey
From the county of Gibson:
David Robb
James Smith
Alexander Devin
Frederick Rapp
From the county of Harrison
Dennis Pennington
Davis Floyd
Daniel C. Lane
Patrick Shields
From the county of Jefferson:
David H. Maxwell
Nathaniel Hunt
Samuel Smock
From the county of Knox:
John Johnson
John Badollet
William Polke
John Bennefield
From the county of Perry:
Charles Poke
From the county of Posey:
Dan Lynn
From the county of Switzerland:
William Cotton
From the county of Warrick:
Daniel Grass
From the county of Washington:
John De Pauw
William Lowe
Samuel Millroy,
Robert McIntire
William Graham
From the county of Wayne:
Joseph Holman,
Jeremiah Co
Patrick Baird
Hugh Cull
Robert H. Milroy
CASS/HOWARD
Horace P. Biddle
George Gordon
CLAY
Francis B.Yocum
CLARK
Jacob Fisher
Thomas W. Gibson
James G. Read
CLINTON Cornelius J. Miller
Stephen Sims
1816 and 1850 Convention Delegates -
1816-2016
Searching for
Descendants
JENNINGS
Hiram Prather
John Spann
JOHNSON
Franklin Hardin
James Ritchey
KNOX
James Dick
Willis W. Hitt
KOSCIUSKO James Garvin
LAGRANGE
John B.Howe
Joseph H. Mather
Henry T. Snook
LAKE/PORTER Samuel P. Anthony
Daniel Crumbacker
LA PORTE John B. Niles
Edmund D. Taylor
LAWRENCE
George W. Carr
Melchart Helmer
MADISON
John Davis
MARION Jacob P. Chapman
Douglas Maguire
Alexander F. Morrison
MARTIN
Thomas Gootee
MIAMI/WABASH
John A. Graham
Harrison Kendall
William Steele
MONROE
William C. Foster
Daniel Read
MONTGOMERY Horace E. Carter
David A. Shannon
Henry T. Snook
MORGAN
Alexander B. Conduit
James Crawford
NOBLE
Thompson D. Bicknell
OHIO Abel C. Pepper
ORANGE William Johnson
William Halliday
William F. Sherrod
OWEN
David M.Dobson
George Moore
PARKE
Samuel Davis
William F. Nofsinger
PERRY
John P. Dunn
Samuel Frisbie
PIKE
Charles Alexander
POSEY
CRAWFORD Samuel Pepper
DAVIESS Elias.S.Terry
DEARBORN
John D.Johnson
Johnson Watts
DECATUR James B. Foley
Joseph Robinson
DEKALB Robert Work
DELAWARE
David Kilgore
Walter March
DUBOIS Benjamin R. Edmundston
Smith Miller
ELKHART Walter E. Beach
FAYETTE
Ross Smiley
William W. Thomas
FLOYD Phineas M. Kent
Henry P. Thornton
FOUNTAIN Joseph Coats
Joseph Ristine
FRANKLIN George Berry
George G. Shoup
Spencer Wiley
FULTON/MARSHALL
Hugh Miller
Amzi L. Wheeler
GIBSON
Samuel Hall
GRANT
Benoni C. Hogin
GREENE
Thomas Butler
HAMILTON Haymond W. Clark
Albert B. Cole
HANCOCK George Tague
Thomas Walpole
HARRISON
John Mathes
John Zenor
HENDRICKS
Christian C. Nave
Henry G.Todd
HENRY
George H. Ballingall
Isaac Kinley
Daniel Mowrer
JACKSON John F. Carr
Samuel P. Mooney
JAY Nathan B. Hawkins
JEFFERSON
Michael. G. Bright
William M. Dunn
Milton Gregg
Page 7 Alvin P. Hovey
Robert Dale Owen
PUTNAM
Oliver P. Badger
Alexander S. Farrow
Alexander C. Stevenson
RANDOLPH
Beattie McClelland
Alexander C. Stevenson
RIPLEY Henry J. Bowers
Thomas Smith
RUSH William Bracken
Jefferson Helm
Jesse Morgan
SCOTT
Hezekiah S. Smith
SHELBY James Elliott
Thomas A. Hendricks
J. Van Bethusen
STEUBEN
Edward R. May
ST.JOSEPH
Schuyler Colfax
SULLIVAN William R. Haddon
Benjamin Wolfe
SWITZERLAND
Daniel Kelso
TIPPECANOE Othniel L. Clark
Joel B. McFarland
John Pettit
UNION
Benjamin F. Brookbank
Daniel Trembly
VANDERBURGH
James E. Blythe
James Lockhart
VERMILLION
Thomas Chenowith
Oliver P. Davis
VIGO
Cromwell W. Barbourk
Thomas J. Bourne
Grafton F. Cookerly
WARRICK Christopher C. Graham
WARREN James R.M. Bryant
WASHINGTON
Ezekiel D. Logan
John I. Morrison
Rodolphus Schoonover
WAYNE John Beard
Othniel Beeson
John S. Newman
James Rariden
WHITLEY/HUNTINGTON
Elias Murray
Jacob Wunderlich
THE
SOCIETY
OF
INDIANA
PIONEERS
Society Officers & Staff
President
Michael H. Miller, Noblesville
Vice President/President-Elect
James P. Fadely, Indianapolis
Secretary
Robert H. Everitt, Indianapolis
Treasurer
Bruce W. Oakley, Indianapolis
Registrar
Marcia A. Krieg , Indianapolis
Yearbook Editor
Joan R. Everitt, Indianapolis
Immediate Past Co-Presidents
Carolyn Rose, Lafayette
Stanley Evans, Lafayette
Genealogist
Michele Kerr, Carmel
Office Manager
Sally Fadely, Indianapolis
Board of Governors
Hometown and year of term expiration follows
each name.
Jeffrey K. Baldwin, Danville 2013
Martha Sue Batt, Indianapolis 2014
Jinsie Scott Bingham, Greencastle 2015
Charles F. Bragg, Fishers 2015
Maxine Fosta Brown, Corydon 2014
J. David Cook, Indianapolis 2015
Louise DeMore, Indianapolis, 2013
Helen M. Dickinson, Indianapolis 2013
Jan Aikman Dickson, Indianapolis 2014
Robert W. Dora, Noblesville 2014
Terri L. Gorney, Fort Wayne 2013
Roberta R. Graham, Brownsburg 2014
Marilyn L. Hoffman, Indianapolis 2013
Edward L. Hultgren, Jr., Carmel 2013
T. Daniel McCain, Delphi 2015
A. Andrew Olson, III, Marco Island, FL 2015
J. Nelson Price, Indianapolis 2015
Robert D. Rati, Carmel 2014
Evaline H. Rhodehamel, Indianapolis 2013
William A. Rhodehamel, Brownsburg 2015
Karen S. Ward, Monticello 2014
Recognition of Newsletter Contributors
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John H. Holliday Award __________________________________ William Rhodehamel
President’s Message ______________________________________ Michael Miller
2013 Pilgrimages _________________________________________ Nelson Price
New Members ___________________________________________ Joan Everitt
1816 & 1850 State Convention Delegates _____________________ Andy Olson
John Hampden Holliday Prize _____________________________ Jeffrey Baldwin
Marketing & Advertising __________________________________ Carolyn Rose / Stanley Evans
Pioneer Founders ________________________________________ Carolyn Rose
Speakers Bureau _________________________________________ Carolyn Rose / Stanley Evans