Putnam County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 37,963. The county seat is Greencastle. The county was named for Israel Putnam, a hero in the French and Indian War and a general in the American Revolutionary War. The county was created in 1821 and organized in April 1822.
Greencastle is a city in Greencastle Township, Putnam County, Indiana, United States, and the county seat of Putnam County. It was founded in 1821 by Ephraim Dukes on a land grant. He named the settlement for his hometown of Greencastle, Pennsylvania. Greencastle was a village or town operating under authority of the Putnam County commissioners until March 9, 1849, when it became a town by special act of the local legislature. Greencastle, Indiana, officially became a city after an election held on July 8, 1861. The first mayor of Greencastle was E. R. Kercheval, a member of the Freemason Temple Lodge #47. The city became the county seat of Putnam County. The population was 10,326 at the 2010 census. It is located near Interstate 70 approximately halfway between Terre Haute and Indianapolis in the west-central portion of the state. Greencastle is well known as being the location of DePauw University.
Philip Riley Sharp is an American politician and nonprofit executive who served in the United States House of Representatives as a Democratic representative from Indiana from 1975 to 1995.
John Thomas Myers was a Republican congressman from Indiana's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1967 to 1997. His son-in-law, Brian D. Kerns, represented the same district from 2001 to 2003. Myers was married and had two daughters and five grandchildren.
Larry Nelson Steele is a former professional basketball player, best known for being on the Portland Trail Blazers team that won the 1977 NBA Finals.
Kenneth Herman Rollins was an American professional basketball player. He competed at the 1948 London Olympics and was a member of the University of Kentucky's "Fabulous Five" who won the 1948 NCAA Tournament. His college career was interrupted by service in the United States Navy during World War II. He was voted to the All-SEC and All-SEC Tourney teams following his junior and senior seasons.
Courtland Craig Gillen was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Courtland Cushing Matson was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Edward Wilson McGaughey was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
Jonas George Howard was a U.S. Representative from Indiana.
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Tim Rogers is an American football coach and former player. He served as the head football coach at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan from 1998 to 2003 and DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana in 2005, compiling a career college football coaching record of 35–30. Rogers went on to coach high school football at Grand Rapids Catholic Central. In 3 seasons his record was 17-15. Rogers was immediately terminated from his role as a teacher and a Varsity football coach when his severe misappropriation and abuse of funds were discovered by the high school
Jane Louise Kelly is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Albertus Theodore Briggs was a Methodist Episcopal minister for more than 40 years, and a District Superintendent in the Hammond and Greencastle districts in Indiana. For years, he was the President of the Preachers Aid Society, now the United Methodist Foundation of Indiana.
The 1888 Indiana Hoosiers football team was an American football team that represented Indiana University Bloomington during the 1888 college football season. In Indiana's second season of intercollegiate football, economics professor Arthur B. Woodford returned as the school's football coach. As in 1887, Indiana played only one game, that game ending in a 6-6 tie with the team from nearby DePauw University at Greencastle, Indiana. The players on the 1888 team included Joseph W. Murphy, John C. Capron, and J. F. Newsom.
Cloverdale High School is a public high school located in Cloverdale, Indiana.
James Richard Baird is an American businessman and politician who serves as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Indiana's 4th congressional district. Before being elected to Congress, Baird served from 2010 to 2018 as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives. He previously served as commissioner for Putnam County, Indiana from 2006 to 2010. A Vietnam veteran, Baird was elected to Congress on November 6, 2018.
Nick Mourouzis was an American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, from 1981 to 2003, compiling a record of 138–87–4. As a college football player, Mourouzis was a starting quarterback at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Robert Bergman is a former American football and track and field coach. He served as the head football coach at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana from 1968 to 1976 and DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana from 1977 to 1978, compiling a career college football coaching record of 39–60–2.
Winona Hazel Welch was an American bryologist. As a professor at DePauw University, she became the first female head of the botany and bacteriology department at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana.
