Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1902 — Some Indiana Names. [ARTICLE]

Some Indiana Names.

Henry Gannett, geographer of the U. 8. Geological Survey, has prepared a book giving the origin of 10,000 names of places in the United States. Here are a few Indiana names, of local interest. Indiana: State, so named be cause a company of traders bought this tract of land lying along the Ohio from the Indians. Iroquois: River, an Indian word meaning “heefrt people,” or “people of God,” or from the Indian “hire,” “I have said,” and “koue,” a vocable which expressed joy or sorrow, according to the rapidity with which it was pronounced; also the name of a tribe.

Jasper: County named for Sergeant Jasper, a revolutionary soldier of Fort Moultrie (8. C.) fame, who was killed in the siege of Savannah. Hammond: Named for Abram Hammond, twelfth Governor, 1860 61. Logansport: Named for Captain Logan, Indian chief, nephew of Tecumseh. Monticello: Named for the hotae of Thomas Jefferson, in Virginia. Newton: County, named for Sergt. John Newton, a revolutionary officer and the inseparable friend of Sergeant Jasper. Pulaski: County, named for the Polish patriot, Count Casimir Pulaski. Tippecanoe: River and county, an Indian word given the various meanings of “At the great clearing.” ‘‘The long-lipped pike,” and “buffalo fish.” Winamac: Indian word meaning captive.