[37] In 1899 Indiana’s total school fund, exclusive of college endowment, was $10,312,000. The school revenue for that year, from all sources, was $6,534,300. The census of 1890 showed the per cent of illiterates (ten years of age and older) in Indiana to be 6.32; in Ohio 5.24; in Illinois 5.25; in Michigan 5.92. In Massachusetts it was 6.22; in New York 5.53; in New Jersey 6.50; in Pennsylvania 6.78.
[38] “Some Western Schoolmasters,” Scribner’s Magazine, Vol. 17, p. 747.
[39] Scribner’s, supra.
[40] One of the passengers on “the boat load of knowledge,” Victor Duclas, is still living (July, 1900) at New Harmony.
[41] The Forum, November, 1890.
[42] The Forum, supra.
[43] “War Papers,” Indiana Commandery, Loyal Legion, 1898.
[44] “Essays at Home and Elsewhere,” p. 211.
[45] “Beginnings of Literary Culture in the Ohio Valley,” by W. H. Venable, LL.D., p. 58 et seq.
[46] Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 35.