The Word Hoosier; John Finley: Indiana Historical Society Publications, Volume IV, Number 2

Dunn, Jacob Piatt · 1924

Produced by Bryan Ness, David E. Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) During the period of about three-quarters of a century in which the State of Indiana and its people have been designated by the word "Hoosier," there has been a large amount of discussion of the origin and meaning of the term, but with a notable lack of any satisfactory result. Some of these discussions have been almost wholly conjectural in character, but others have been more methodical, and of the latter the latest and most exhaustive--that of Mr. Meredith Nicholson[1]--sums up the…

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