Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1902 — For a Park and Memorial. [ARTICLE]

For a Park and Memorial.

—n The following from Rensselaer appears in Wednesday’s Indianapolis Journal: Rensselaer, Ind., Oct. 28.—The Rensselaer City Council and the citizens by subscriptions raised by tbe Ladies’. Literary Club have jointly purchased the old Milroy homestead here for a public park and patriotic memorial. Previous to the civil war it was the home of Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroy, then a practicing attorney at the Jasper connty bar. He lived in it when at the breaking out of the civil war be organized the first volunteer company in Iniana for that war, and which company became a part of the Ninth Indiana Infantry, of whioh General Milroy was the first oolonel. The survivors of this regiment probably will erect a monument to tbe “Old Gray Eagle’s” memory in this park. A memorial hall of some kind is also a future probability.