Ebook: Hidden History of Montgomery County, Indiana

The Highest Achiever of Linden High School -- Spooks, Specters and Spirit Photographs -- The Week Lana Turner Came to Town -- Commodore Alf's Improbable Gourd Museum -- Campaigning in Crawfordsville -- Dying to Stay Married -- "Lament of the Fire Laddies" -- The Legacy of the Jewish Tailor of Crawfordsville -- Maurine Watkins Makes Satire Out of Murder -- America's First Airmail -- Nellie Coutant, Forgotten Photographer -- The Sad End of Comedian Ferris Hartman -- Crawfordsville's Playwright : Kenyon Nicholson -- From Actress to Author : Maude Snyder -- The Courthouse Tower Is Going to Fall (or Is It?) -- Crawfordsville's Thomas Edison : Shirl Herr -- Disgraced Doctors -- Carrie Nation Cleans Up Crawfordsville -- Elizabeth Boynton Harbert and the Pursuit of Suffrage -- Ruth Morgan and the Waveland Vigilantes Foil a Robbery -- Wabash College's Football Fatality -- Mary Oda Eglin, "Artist of the Army Air Corps.";Montgomery County never fails to surprise the visitor with its unique and varied history. Even local residents are often unaware of some of their county heritage. Anyone who spends some time in Crawfordsville will eventually know about General Lew Wallace, author of the one-time bestseller Ben-Hur, as well as Senator Henry Lane, who helped found the Republican Party and get Abraham Lincoln nominated for the presidency. Wabash College was founded here in 1832 and is one of the two remaining all-male colleges in the nation -- with the dubious honor of having fired Ezra Pound before he went on to fame as a poet. The Hidden History of Montgomery County will touch upon such topics but will also bring to light many of the area's other deserving stories.