The following are biographies and/or genealogies of those who were officially connected to Indiana’s canals, worked on them or had businesses related to them.
Click on highlighted names to learn more about those canawlers.
Name | Find A Grave | Canal Business |
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Garfield, James | 381 | 20th US President , General, Ohio Canal |
Goethals, George Washington | 399 | Panama Canal – Chief Engineer |
Gordon, James | 19982774 | Physician, Store Owner – Cass Co. |
Gordon, Mahlon | 41755827 | Canal Boats & Mill / Lock #24 Metamora |
Graham, A. E. | Savannah, OH | Black Pastor / traveled Canal Boat in Ohio |
Guard, David | Dearborn Co. | Whitewater Canal Contractor |
Hager, Jacob | 15565900 | Chief Clerk W&E Terre Haute |
Hamman, Christopher | 44964396 | Canal Worker – Warrick Co |
Haney, William | 34775299 | Canal Engineer – Penn. & Miami Co Indiana |
Hanna, Joseph S. | 46612822 | W&E Trustee – Lafayette / Banker/ H Sample partner |
Hanna, Samuel | 7117129 | Canal Commissioner |
Harris, Horatio J. | 77175141 | Asst. Engineer Canal near Delphi IN |
Harris, Persius | 73459605 | Canal Warehouse – Montezuma Parke Co. |
Harrison, William Henry | 452 | 9th US President / Gov Indiana Territory |
Hedekin, Michael | 82808438 | Owner Hotel in FT Wayne, canal travelers |
Henton, Rachael | 28342936 | Buttermilk Babe at Lock 20 – Peru IN |
Heron, James | 101501680 | WW Canal Officer/Heron Lock Connersville |
Hill, Samuel Denny | 76588876 | Home on Water St Montezuma |
Hinton, James Sidney | 7183765 | Last Board of Trustees W&E Canal |
Hoagland, Pliny | 16170465 | Ohio/In Canal Engineer promoter/business |
Hogan, Michael | 36539212 | Lagro Businessman |
Holladay Brothers | 56813900 | Lodi Saloon, Warehouse, Boat Owner |
Holman, Solomon | 132928555 | Founder of Miamisport later (Peru) IN |
Houser, James A. | 141729065 | Tale of death of Dennis on Miami & Erie |
Hudson, Benjamin | 76742946 | Memories of Montzuma early days |
Hudson, Robert | 6733445 | Terre Haute Attorney / Legislator |
Hughes, Morris | 92117611 | Canal Boat Owner / Pork Pack – Montezuma |
Hurd, Joseph C. | 106477741 | Locktender – Wabash R at Grand Rapids |
Jenks, Gideon | 121080334 | WW Lock Landowner |
Jocelyn, Augustus | 95065341 | Brookville Minister / Newspaper Publisher |
Jones, Clem Aquilla | 22759377 | Canal Worker in Greene Co – CrossCut |
Jones, Daniel Amasa | 99514704 | Ferry Operator Howard, Lived in Newport |
Jones, Lemuel G. | California | Canal work Lock at Wabash / Mill Roanoke |
Kellogg, Elizabeth Ann | N/A | Tale of canal travel west to Parke Co |
Kendall, Enion | 9280561 | Wrote Poems about Canal Cass Co |
Kile, Wiliam | N/A | Canal Boat Owner Parke Co |
Kilgore, David | 7185108 | Congressman Legis Politician Delware Co |
Kiser, Peter | 44939945 | Fort Wayne Butcher Canal Celebration |
Lake, Josepheus | 111075456 | Canal Boatman / 54th & 123rd IN Inf / Teacher |
Lee, Alexander | 45958363 | Pottery Business – Parke Co |
Lewis, Samuel | 55425418 | Canal Commissioner replaced Hanna |
Linton, William C. | 15565867 | Canal Finance Comm Terre Haute |
Logan, Robert | 41674138 | Pike Co Highbanks, Built Riley Lock |
Long, Elisha | 154154869 | Canal Commisoner |
Longworth, Nicholas | 18989969 | Cincinatti Businessman / Lockland plotted |
Lotz, Henry | 16169766 | Contract St Marys A 3rd Mayor FTW |
Lovall, Samuel | 120370749 | Hauled Timber for FTW Locks to State Line |
Lucas, Ebenezer | 20194965 | Responsible for toll collecting & land sales |
McKahan, Daniel | 39875388 | W&E Boat Owner / Sheriff Wabash Co |
Manwarring, Robert West Union | 14318825 | Businessman / Mill operator – Parke Co |
Maris, John & Zimri | 119654055 | Canal Superintendent – Parke Co / Minister |
Martin, Mary Hassett | N/A | Canal Boat Captain – Defiance OH |
McCarty, Nicholas | 8381692 | Canal Fund Commissioner |
McClure, Nelson | N/A | Mill Operator, Sugar Creek Feeder |
McCulloch, Hugh | 6661898 | FTW Banker / US Sec. Treasury |
McCune, Alexander | 71151843 | Trips to New Orleans / Mill – Big Racoon Creek |
McIntyre, William | 30027647 | Canal Worker – Parke Co . Boat operator |
McMannomy, John | 22149282 | Canal Contractor – Fountain Co |
McMannomy, James | 22149100 | Canal Contractor – Fountain Co |
McRoberts, David | 59155322 | Worked on Miama & Erie / Gibson Co later |
Maxwell, David H. | 28858083 | Canal Commissioner |
Meeker, Minor | 49922863 | Fayette Co Senator ind Senate |
Meyer, Diedrich | 34879676 | Brothers FTW established Meyer Drugs |
Meyer, Frederick J. | 62201984 | Worked on W & E Canal FTW area |
Meyer, Frederick G. | 75772918 | Partner of Meyer Drug business |
Meyer, William | 19298497 | Canal Boat worker / Drug Business |
Milligan, Lambdin P. | 10789999 | Huntington lawyer, Copperhead Supreme Ct |
Minesinger, John | 37038230 | Chief Engineer Hagerstown Canal |
Moffatt, James Tillery | 128483347 | Associate Judge in Terre Haute/ IN Senator |
Moore, Henry C. | 139312595 | Engineer/ Supervisor – Whitewater Canal |
Morgan, Goodlet | 116650667 | Petersburg Merchant / Son in L G Profit |
Morgan, Oliver P. | 36037815 | Toll Collector & 2nd Mayor FTW |
Morris, Thomas A. | 8537742 | Surveyor- Central Canal |
Murray, Elias | Decatur IN | Huntington Merchant / at Groundbreaking |
Mushett, James | 77352905 | Canal boat operator – Montezuma |
Myers, Peter | 15309091 | Gibson Co canal worker |