Who's Who From Union County

A look at Union County's Notable Personalities

Brevetted Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Bennett

                Brevetted Brigadier General of the  United States Army  - A Guard on the Lincoln Death Train - Mayor of Richmond Indiana - Governor Of the Territory of Idaho - United States House of Representatives

Walter Frederick Bossert

Walter Frederick Bossert

             Please note: Walter Bossert was a lawyer, Republican activist and Grand Dragon for the Klu Klux Klan in Indiana and 17 other states.  Notable persons are sometimes politically incorrect.

 

Helen Margaret Roach Bossert - wife

Major General Ambrose Everts Burnside

Commander of the Army of the Potomac for a short time noted for his facial hair.

Jay H. Connaway

Jay Hall Connaway

             (1893-1970)  American Artist

Bob Jenkins

           born September 4, 1947 in Liberty, Indiana is a television and radio sports announcer best

             known for his work at ABC and ESPN calling NASCAR and IndyCar telecasts.

Robert Limpus

            (1913-1955) Artist

Major General Frederick Leroy Martin

          Union County Native / World Flyer / Officer United States Army /

          Purdue University Graduate / Commander of Pearl Harbor Army Air Force

          7 December 1941

Joni McMechan

          Miss Indiana 1988

Cincinnatus Hiner "Joaquin" Miller

     The Poet of The Sierra's

Colonel Oran D. Perry

        Civil War Soldier - Superintendent of the Soldier's and Sailor's Memorial

Mary Alice Smith

        Meet the woman who inspired James Whitcomb Riley's "Little Orphant Annie"

 
The Political 
Graveyard

Politicians who where born / lived / died in Union County Indiana

 

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