Windom, Indiana | |
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Coordinates: 38°34′26″N86°47′52″W / 38.57389°N 86.79778°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Indiana |
County | Martin |
Township | Lost River |
Elevation | 479 ft (146 m) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP code | 47581 |
Area code(s) | 812, 930 |
GNIS feature ID | 451638 [1] |
Windom is an unincorporated community in Lost River Township, Martin County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [1]
A post office was established at Windom in 1892, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1906. [2] The community was named after William Windom, 39th United States Secretary of the Treasury. [3]
Martin County is a county in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 9,812. The county seat is Shoals at the center of the county, and the county's only incorporated city is Loogootee, on the county's western border.
Crawford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2020, the population was 10,526. The county seat is English.
Crawford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 census, the population was 18,679. Its county seat is Robinson.
Crawfordsville is a city in Montgomery County in west central Indiana, United States, 49 miles (79 km) west by northwest of Indianapolis. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 16,306. The city is the county seat of Montgomery County, the only chartered city and the largest populated place in the county. It is the principal city of the Crawfordsville, IN Micropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Montgomery County. The city is also part of the Indianapolis–Carmel–Muncie, IN Combined Statistical Area.
Windom is a city in McPherson County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 85.
Windom is a city and the county seat of Cottonwood County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 4,798 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Cottonwood County and is situated in the Coteau des Prairies.
William Windom was an American politician from Minnesota. He served as U.S. Representative from 1859 to 1869, and as U.S. Senator from 1870 to January 1871, from March 1871 to March 1881, and from November 1881 to 1883. He also served two non-consecutive times as Secretary of the Treasury from March to November 1881, and from 1889 to 1891, under three Presidents. He was a Republican. He was the great-grandfather of actor William Windom, who was named for him.
William Harris Crawford was an American politician and judge during the early 19th century. He served as US Secretary of War and US Secretary of the Treasury before he ran for US president in the 1824 election.
Charles William Foster Jr. was a U.S. Republican politician from Ohio. Foster was the 35th governor of Ohio, and later went on to serve as Secretary of the Treasury under Benjamin Harrison. From 1871 to 1879, he served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
William Windom was an American actor. He was known as a character actor of the stage and screen. He is well known for his recurring role as Dr. Seth Hazlitt alongside Angela Lansbury in the CBS mystery series Murder, She Wrote and his intense guest role as Commodore Matt Decker in Star Trek: The Original Series.
The 47th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1881, to March 4, 1883, during the six months of James Garfield's presidency, and the first year and a half of Chester Arthur's presidency. The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the 1870 United States census. The House had a Republican majority; the Senate was evenly divided for the first time ever, with no vice president to break ties for most of this term.
Windom is an unincorporated community in Wyoming County, West Virginia, United States. Windom was originally known as Darby until November 1899. It was named for former United States Secretary of the Treasury, William Windom.
USRC Windom was a revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service and United States Coast Guard that served from 1896 to 1930. She was named for William Windom, the 33rd and 39th United States Secretary of the Treasury. She served during the Spanish–American War with the United States Navy. Windom was recommissioned as USCGC Comanche in 1915 and again served with the Navy as USS Comanche during World War I.
William Hall Yale was a Minnesota lawyer and Republican politician who served as Senator and sixth Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota. He was made regent of the University of Minnesota in 1894 by Governor Nelson, and was a member of the Episcopal Church.
Lost River Township is one of six townships in Martin County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 513 and it contained 250 housing units.
The Reno Gang, also known as the Reno Brothers Gang and The Jackson Thieves, were a group of criminals that operated in the Midwestern United States during and just after the American Civil War. Though short-lived, the gang carried out the first three peacetime train robberies in U.S. history. Most of the stolen money was never recovered.
Rusk is an unincorporated community in Lost River Township, Martin County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
From March 9 to June 5, 1920, voters of the Democratic Party elected delegates to the 1920 Democratic National Convention, for the purposing of choosing a nominee for president in the 1920 United States presidential election.
Belknap is an unincorporated community in Perry Township, Vanderburgh County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Windom College is a former American parochial school in Montevideo, Minnesota. It is the second school established in southwestern Minnesota by the Congregational church. It was founded in 1885 with the hope that its students would take more advanced courses in Carleton College. Originally named "Western Minnesota Seminary", it became the "Windom Institute" in 1891 in honor of Hon. William Windom, United States Senator and Secretary of the Treasury, who was a member of the Congregational church in Winona, Minnesota, the earliest of the Congregational churches in southeastern Minnesota. The name change in 1912 to "Windom College" gave western Minnesota its first college. Windom College ended operations in 1923. Its building was purchased by and became the official home of the Masons of Montevideo.
The name is for William Windom, secretary of the treasury...