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List of people from Spencer, Indiana

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The following is a list of notable people associated with Spencer, Indiana. These people were born or lived in Spencer.

Military

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Army

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  • U.S. Army General Thomas Alexander McNaught was born near Spencer on 8 September 1826, one of the eleven children of Thomas and Catherine (Bartholomew) McNaught. He enlisted in April 1846 into Company A, 3d Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and left service in July 1847. When civil war broke out, he enlisted into Company A, 59th Indiana Infantry Regiment and elected captain after raising a company on 10 October 1861, rising in rank to become a brevetted Brigadier General on 4 August 1865 and ultimately taking command of the First Brigade of the Third Division in the Fifteen Army Corps. He took part in the siege of New Madrid, march to Iuka, movement to Milliken's Bend, Battle of Raymond, Battle of Jackson, Battle of Champion Hill, Black River, Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge, Battle of Vicksburg, and Siege of Corinth. He participated in Sherman's March to the Sea from Dalton to Atlanta and the capture of Savannah.[1] He died on 10 March 1919 and was buried in River Hill Cemetery, south of Spencer.[2]
Helical-Coil Heat Exchanger
Colonel Scott S. Haraburda Microwave Rocket Thruster
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Air Force

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Lieutenant Colonel Hickam, who commanded the 3rd Attack Group from 1932 to 1934
  • U.S. Army Air Corps Lieutenant Colonel Horace Meek Hickam was a famous pilot for the United States in the earlier half of the 20th century. The son of a lawyer, Hickam was born in Spencer on 14 August 1885, the eldest of four children. Hickam's association with aviation began with the United States' entry into World War I. He was involved in the Mexican Punitive Expedition. By the end of his career, he had achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel and received a Silver Star. Colonel Hickam was killed in a landing accident at Fort Crockett, Galveston, Texas, on 5 November 1934. His fame as being a pioneering figure in aviation and aerospace science eventually led to the naming of the United States Air Force Base in Hawaii, "Hickam AFB" in his honor.

Other

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  • Ernest M. Viquesney was born in Spencer on 5 August 1876, the only child of Alfred P. and Jane (née Lehman) Viquesney.[31] He was a Spanish–American War veteran.[32] In 1928, he built the Tivoli Theatre in Spencer.[33] He was an American sculptor best known for his very popular World War I monument Spirit of the American Doughboy, one of which is located in front of the Owen County Courthouse.[31][34] Shortly after the death of his second wife, Elizabeth "Betty" (née Sadler), he killed himself on 4 October 1946, the day after the thirteenth anniversary of the death of his first wife, Cora B. (née Barnes), all three buried at Riverside Cemetery in Spencer.[35]
  • William S. Sadler, was born in Spencer and was a surgeron, psychiatrist, and author.[36]
  • Helen (Nellie) Artie Tarleton Belles, mother of Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.[37]

References

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  1. ^ Blanchard, C. (ed.) (1884), Counties of Clay and Owen, Indiana: Historical and Biographical, (Chicago: F.A. Battey & Company Publishers), pp. 880–881.
  2. ^ Eicher, J.H. & Eicher, D.J. (eds.) (2001), Civil War High Commands, (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3), p. 383.
  3. ^ 2005 Congressional Record, Vol. 151, Page S13510 (13 December 2005)
  4. ^ Haraburda, Scott (2013). Christian Controversies: Seeking the Truth. Meaningful Publications. ISBN 978-0-9886072-0-0.
  5. ^ Haraburda, Scott (Winter 2007). "CBRNE Leadership Rules" (PDF). Army Chemical Review: 4–7. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  6. ^ Haraburda, Scott; Bloom, Frances; Keck, Robert (2009). "Contracting Agility in LOGCAP-Kuwait" (PDF). Army Logistician. 41 (4): 3–8. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  7. ^ staff (19 October 2010). "Colonel Haraburda Retires After Nearly Three Decades Of Service; Receives Legion Of Merit". Spencer Evening World. pp. 1, 4. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  8. ^ "Scott S. Haraburda". Hall of Valor. Military Times. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  9. ^ "ROTC Hall of Fame". Central Michigan University. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  10. ^ Loebach, Linda K. (15 March 2011). "Haraburda Inducted into ROTC Hall of Fame". United States Army. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  11. ^ Haraburda, Scott S. (July 1995). "Three-Phase Flow? Consider Helical-Coil Heat Exchangers". Chemical Engineering. 102 (7): 149–151. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  12. ^ Haraburda, Scott (June 1992). "Developmental Research for Designing a Microwave Electrothermal Thruster". 18th Army Science Conference. Vol. 2. Orlando, Florida. pp. 15–29. Archived from the original on July 25, 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  13. ^ Haraburda, Scott (2001). Transport phenomena of flow through helium and nitrogen plasmas in microwave electrothermal thrusters (Ph.D.). Michigan State University. ProQuest 304703595.
  14. ^ "Complete List of NSPE Fellows". National Society of Professional Engineers. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  15. ^ Peske, Thomas (3 July 2013). "Crane Army Employee Receives Engineering Society Honor". United States Army. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  16. ^ staff (27 May 2014). "Haraburda Named 69th President Of Society Of Professional Engineering". Spencer Evening World. p. 1. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  17. ^ US 6516280, Michael Davis, Timothy Klein, George McCarty, Scott; Masterson, Rex & Clark, Angelika, "Method and System for Electronic Recycle Inventory Tracking", issued 2003 
  18. ^ US 6405579, Tjahjadi, Mahari; Janssen, Joseph & Fischer, George et al., "Scaleless On-Line Rheometer Device", issued 2002 
  19. ^ US 2002077722, Haraburda, Scott; Masterson, Rex & Clark, Angelika et al., "Method and System for Electronic Tracking of Packaging", published 2002 
  20. ^ US 2002077718, Michael Davis, George McCarty, Scott; Masterson, Rex & Clark, Angelika, "Method and System for Using Electronic Raw Material Tracking and Quality Control", published 2002 
  21. ^ US 2002077717, Michael Davis, Dale Dorris Jennifer Johnson, Scott; Masterson, Rex & Clark, Angelika, "Method and System for Using Electronic Raw Material and Formula Verification", published 2002 
  22. ^ US 2002077715, Haraburda, Scott; Masterson, Rex & Clark, Angelika et al., "Method and System for Using Electronic Downloadable Control Plans", published 2002 
  23. ^ WO 0150209, Haraburda, Scott; Masterson, Rex & Clark, Angelika et al., "Method and System for Monitoring Production Data", published 2001 
  24. ^ WO 0141540, Haraburda, Scott, "Method and System for Visualizing a Production Schedule", published 2001 
  25. ^ WO 0127795, Haraburda, Scott, "Method and System for Screen Saver Based Communications", published 2001 
  26. ^ Gressitt, Alexandra S. (reprocessed) (2 January 2002). "David Enoch Beem documents" (PDF). Manuscript Collections Department, William Henry Smith Memorial Library, Indiana Historical Society. Retrieved 26 January 2014. See also: Charles W. Taylor (1895). Biographical Sketches and Review of the Bench and Bar of Indiana. Indianapolis, Indiana: Bench and Bar Publishing Company. pp. 660–63. OCLC 2503866. Also: Charles Blanchard (1884). Counties of Clay and Owen, Indiana: Historical and Biographical. Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company. OCLC 8652274.
  27. ^ a b c d Heffermn, John (1955). "Hoosier Senior Naval Officers in World War II". Indiana Magazine of History. 51 (2): 91–112. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  28. ^ a b Richardson, Dixie K. (3 June 2015). "Fact & Folklore of Owen County: Spencer's Admirals". Spencer Evening World. p. 1. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  29. ^ "Commanders of the U.S. Navy's Sixth Fleet". U.S.S. Little Rock Association. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  30. ^ "Joins the Fleet Today". The Boston Naval Shipyard News. 7 March 1958. p. 1. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  31. ^ a b Indiana Department of Natural Resources (20 October 1994). "Owen County Courthouse" (PDF). National Register of Historical Places – Registration Form. p. 8. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  32. ^ Wingate, Jennifer (2013). Sculpting Doughboys: Memory, Gender, and Taste in America's World War I Memorials. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company. p. 59.
  33. ^ staff (23 October 2009). "Tivoli Slowly Being Taken Back To Original Look From 1920's". Spencer Evening World. p. 1. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
  34. ^ Trout, Steven. On the Battlefield of Memory: The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919–1941. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: The University of Alabama Press. pp. 111–115.
  35. ^ Dissent from War
  36. ^ "Family search: Sarah Isabelle Wilson". Family search.
  37. ^ Fisher, Nigel (1982). Harold Macmillan. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-77914-8.